IT, security and CMMC readiness for manufacturers and defense suppliers. When a prime sends a requirement down the chain, the attestation is yours — which means the liability is too. We make sure there’s something real behind the signature.
Downtime costs a shift. A failed flow-down costs the contract.
Somebody asking a chatbot to interpret a spec or rewrite a procedure. If that material is controlled, where it went is now a contractual question, not a convenience one.
The third-party assessor being paused removed the assessor, not the requirement. NIST 800-171 is still the standard, your prime’s flow-down still binds you, and the signature on the attestation is yours alone.
Unplanned downtime is measured in shifts, not tickets. Machine controllers, the network and the systems that schedule work all have to stay up.
An invoice that looked right with new banking details. For a business running on thin margins, one of these is a month of profit.
Readiness and remediation that holds up when somebody asks for evidence.
Where you actually stand today, written down, instead of an assumption about what the IT guy set up.
The written artifacts the standard expects, maintained rather than produced in a panic before a review.
Which tools are permitted and what controlled material must never be entered into one.
Who can reach what, reviewed, with the record to show it.
Drawings, programs and business systems proven recoverable, because ransomware on a shop floor stops the shop floor.
A verification step before any supplier banking change, documented.
No, and nobody who isn’t an authorised assessor can. Certification status comes from a C3PAO or the government, never from a provider. What we do is readiness and remediation — the gap assessment, the controls, and the documentation an assessment would ask for.
That is the most expensive misreading in the industry right now. What changed was the assessor, not the requirement. Self-assessment obligations remain, NIST 800-171 is still the enforcement standard, and your prime’s flow-down still binds you. The signature is still yours.
If you touch federal contract information or controlled unclassified information — usually arriving through a prime’s flow-down rather than a direct contract — then yes. The most common surprise is discovering the flow-down applied two contracts ago.
It shouldn’t, and if a proposal would, we’ll tell you before it happens. Controls that stop production get switched off by the people they inconvenience, which leaves you worse off than before.
A predictable monthly agreement, with readiness work scoped separately once we know what the gap actually is. You see both figures before committing.
Tell us what’s going on and an advisor calls you back within one business day. We ask about your business before we say anything about ours. No pitch deck, no pressure.
Regulatory guidance on this page last reviewed October 2026.