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CMMC Compliance Consulting: Keep Your Defense Contracts Eligible

CMMC assessment requirements are now appearing in DoD solicitations — and flowing down to every subcontractor in the chain. If your revenue touches defense work, certification readiness is a contract-eligibility question. We take contractors from scoping through assessment with the SPRS score to show for it.

  • Level 1 and Level 2 readiness against NIST SP 800-171
  • CUI scoping that shrinks the assessment boundary — and the cost
  • SPRS self-assessment scoring done honestly and defensibly
  • SSP and POA&M documentation assessors accept
  • Enclave strategies: GCC High, secure enclaves, and when each pays off
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CMMC Readiness Scoping Call

Prime or sub, tell us what CUI or FCI you handle and your contract timeline. We will map your level, boundary, and realistic path to assessment-ready.

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Scope the CUI Before You Buy the Controls

CMMC Level 2 means implementing all 110 controls of NIST SP 800-171 across every system that stores, processes, or transmits Controlled Unclassified Information — plus everything connected to those systems. Applied to a whole company network, that is a crushing project. Applied to a properly designed enclave, it is a manageable one. The scoping decision, made before any remediation, determines which project you are buying.

Most machine shops, engineering firms, and specialty subs do not need their entire environment certified — they need the drawings, specs, and contract data isolated where the 110 controls can actually be enforced: a secure enclave, a GCC High tenant, or a segmented environment with controlled interfaces. We design that boundary first, then implement against it.

A representative path: a 45-person precision manufacturer with CUI scattered across email, file shares, and shop-floor machines. We consolidated CUI into a segmented enclave with GCC High for contract communications, cutting in-scope systems by roughly 70%. The SPRS score went from an honest negative to assessment-ready inside two quarters — without re-architecting the whole plant.

  • CUI/FCI data-flow mapping before any control spend
  • Enclave and tenant architecture designed for your contracts
  • SSP, POA&M, and policies written against the real boundary
  • Flow-down requirements handled for primes and subs both
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What Each Level Requires

The 800-171 Control Families Where Contractors Struggle

Six of the fourteen families produce most failed assessments

Access Control (AC)
Least privilege for CUI, session controls, and CUI flow enforcement — 22 controls, the largest family and the most findings.
Identification & Authentication (IA)
MFA for network and privileged access, replay-resistant authentication — the family DIBCAC checks first because failures here undermine everything else.
Audit & Accountability (AU)
Logs that capture CUI access, retained and reviewed — assessors ask to see the review records, not just the logging config.
Configuration Management (CM)
Baselines, change control, and the software inventory that proves nothing unauthorized runs in the boundary.
Incident Response (IR)
A tested plan including the 72-hour DFARS 252.204-7012 reporting clock to DIBNet — with evidence of at least one exercise.
System & Communications Protection (SC)
Boundary protection, CUI encryption in transit and at rest, and the FIPS-validated cryptography requirement that trips up otherwise-solid environments.
The Path to Certification

From First Scoping to C3PAO Assessment

The sequence that gets contractors certified without boiling the ocean

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1. Scope & Data Flow
Map where FCI and CUI enter, live, and leave. Decide what gets isolated versus certified — the cost-defining step.
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2. Gap Assessment & SPRS Score
Score all 110 controls per DoD methodology. Post the honest number to SPRS; falsified scores are now False Claims Act cases.
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3. Boundary & Enclave Build
Stand up the enclave, GCC High tenant, or segmented zone with controlled interfaces sized to your contracts.
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4. Control Implementation
Close the gaps inside the boundary: MFA, FIPS crypto, logging, hardening — engineering work our team executes directly.
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5. Documentation: SSP & POA&M
The System Security Plan describing how each control is met, and a POA&M for the shrinking remainder — the artifacts every assessment opens with.
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6. Assessment & Maintain
Level 1 self-assesses annually; Level 2 typically means a C3PAO assessment every three years with annual affirmations. Controls keep running in between — we make that the easy part.
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What Clients Say About Our Support

LA companies on the switch — cost, coverage, and control.

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Straight Answers

CMMC Compliance FAQ

What LA owners ask before outsourcing IT.

Which CMMC level do we actually need?
Level 1 (17 practices, annual self-assessment) if you handle only Federal Contract Information. Level 2 (all 110 of NIST 800-171) if you touch CUI — most manufacturing drawings, technical specs, and ITAR-adjacent data qualify. Your contracts and data flows decide, not your preference; we make that determination in the scoping phase, in writing.
What is the difference between FCI and CUI?
FCI is information provided by or generated for the government under contract that is not public — nearly every defense contract creates some. CUI is the sensitive tier requiring safeguarding under the CUI Registry: technical drawings, specs, export-controlled data. The distinction matters because it is exactly the Level 1 versus Level 2 line.
What does an SPRS score mean and why does it matter now?
It is your NIST 800-171 self-assessment score (range -203 to 110) posted to the Supplier Performance Risk System, where primes and contracting officers check it. It has become a business-development fact: primes screen subs by SPRS score today, before CMMC clauses even appear in the contract. An honest, improving score wins work; an inflated one is federal fraud exposure.
Can we keep using regular Microsoft 365?
Commercial Microsoft 365 does not meet DFARS 7012 requirements for CUI — the cloud provisions require FedRAMP-moderate-equivalent handling and specific incident-response support. GCC High is the standard answer for CUI in email and collaboration; part of scoping is determining whether you need it tenant-wide or only for the enclave.
How long does Level 2 readiness take?
From a typical standing start: 6–12 months. Scoping and gap assessment take a month; enclave build and control implementation dominate the middle; documentation and pre-assessment testing close it out. C3PAO scheduling adds lead time — book early, capacity is constrained as enforcement phases in.
Do our subcontractors need CMMC too?
If CUI flows to them, yes — the requirement follows the data down the supply chain, and primes are contractually obligated to enforce it. We help primes define what actually flows down (often less than assumed, with smart data handling) and help subs meet the level their data genuinely requires.

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Know Your Level, Boundary, and Real SPRS Score

One scoping engagement answers the three questions every defense contractor gets asked — before a prime or contracting officer asks them.