CMMC Accreditation.
Guaranteed.
For DoD contractors who cannot afford to lose the next award. We diagnose your environment against the 110 controls of NIST 800-171, remediate with your team, and sit beside you through the C3PAO assessment. Certified, or we don’t stop.
The clause is already in your next contract.
DFARS 252.204-7021 flows down to every contractor and subcontractor that touches Controlled Unclassified Information. Without a CMMC Level 2 certificate from an accredited C3PAO, contracting officers cannot make award. There is no waiver. There is no parallel path.
The phase-in is no longer hypothetical. Solicitations are already requiring it. Subcontractors are being de-scoped for the absence of an SPRS score. The window to treat CMMC as a future problem closed in the last fiscal year.
Safeguard CUI
Adequate security and 72-hour cyber incident reporting to DoD via DIBNet.
SPRS Score
A current self-assessment score posted to the Supplier Performance Risk System.
Assessment Rights
DoD assessment rights and flow-down to subcontractors handling CUI.
CMMC Certification
The certification requirement clause. No certificate, no award eligibility.
You have 14 families to defend.
Three are usually failing.
This is the heatmap we produce in week two. Every cell is a defensible posture, not an opinion. Hover or tap a family to read the typical failure pattern.
Hover a family to read its typical failure pattern across DoD contractors we’ve assessed.
A $200M defense manufacturer.
$48M contract saved.
Engaged on a Friday after a prime threatened to re-compete a five-year award. We rebuilt the SSP from the data flow up, closed 47 controls in 11 weeks, and walked their C3PAO through the Assessment Packet line by line. The certificate landed two weeks before the option year exercise.
“They sat on our side of the table. The C3PAO opened a finding, our compliance surgeon produced the artifact from the SSP appendix, and the finding closed before lunch. That is the only reason we kept the contract.”
- Controls met
- 103 / 110
- POA&M (allowed)
- 7 of 7
- Confidence
- Audit-ready
- Submitted
- To DoD SPRS
Five phases. No surprises.
Built from the inside of dozens of C3PAO assessments. Each phase produces an artifact that survives audit, not a slide that survives a meeting.
- 01 · DIAGNOSEWeek 1
Map the CUI boundary
We trace every system, person, and data flow that touches Controlled Unclassified Information. Anything in scope is documented; anything out of scope is excluded with evidence. The boundary decision sets the cost of everything that follows.
DeliverablesScoping Memo, Network Diagram, Data Flow Map - 02 · EXPOSEWeek 2
Evidence gap heatmap
Every one of the 110 controls is scored against artifacts you can actually produce in an assessment. Implemented, partially implemented, or not implemented — with a per-control owner and severity weight.
DeliverablesSSP v1, POA&M, SPRS Score - 03 · OPERATEWeeks 3–12
Remediate, with your IT
A surge team works beside your engineers. Configurations applied, policies authored, training delivered, evidence captured. We do not hand you a backlog — we close it with you.
DeliverablesImplemented Controls, Artifact Library - 04 · CERTIFYAudit window
C3PAO handoff and pass
Your Assessment Packet is built like we are the assessor. We escort the engagement — reading rooms, evidence defense, real-time clarification. Findings get answered before they become findings.
DeliverablesAssessment Packet, Pass Letter - 05 · MONITOROngoing
SPRS and affirmation, forever
Annual affirmation, configuration drift detection, control re-test. Your score stays at 110 because someone is watching it weekly, not annually.
DeliverablesQuarterly Reviews, Annual Affirmation
We build your Assessment Packet
like we are the assessor.
Federal conflict-of-interest rules prohibit one firm from serving as both your RPO and your C3PAO. That separation exists for good reason. It also means most contractors walk into assessment with a packet the assessor has never seen. We do not. Every artifact we produce is structured to the exact evidence taxonomy a C3PAO uses on day one.
Evidence taxonomy
Artifacts indexed by control, family, and assessment objective — not by IT system. Mirrors how the assessor reads it.
Defensible scoping
Boundary memo signed by your CIO. Out-of-scope justifications keyed to NIST SP 800-171A determination statements.
Real-time defense
Audit Escort sits in the engagement. Findings answered with documentation already drafted — not promises.
Former DoD assessors. Former CISOs. No juniors on your engagement.
Our partners have led C3PAO assessments, signed off on Authorization Boundaries inside the defense industrial base, and run information security for primes with active CUI obligations. You are not assigned a portal. You are assigned a person.
Read founder storyFormer Lead Assessor at a CMMC-AB authorized C3PAO. 60+ assessments closed.
Former CISO at a Tier-1 prime. Built CUI enclave for a $1.2B program.
Ten years inside DCMA. NIST 800-171 assessment expert.
Sat on the assessor side of 40+ engagements. Knows the failure patterns cold.
How much contract value is on the line?
A blunt estimate of dollars at risk if your CMMC posture costs you eligibility for the next solicitation. Numbers are illustrative; the audit packet is the real answer.
The figure assumes loss of the active contract plus expected awards in the next 24 months if you remain ineligible to bid on CUI-bearing work.
- Direct contract loss
- $8.00M
- Pipeline opportunity loss
- $5.33M
- Emergency re-audit and surge
- $145K
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Book a Contract Risk Audit.
Direct call with a partner. We qualify your CAGE code, contract value at risk, and CUI footprint, then tell you — straight — whether you should be alarmed. No pitch deck.
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