Industries — Defense & Manufacturing
CMMC compliance and IT services for Tri-State defense suppliers
CMMC requirements began appearing in DoD contracts in November 2025. For New Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut suppliers, the work is NIST 800-171 — and the timeline math says start well before the contract does.
The clock is arithmetic, not alarm
There is no need to dramatize CMMC; the arithmetic does it. Assessment requirements entered new DoD contracts on November 10, 2025 and phase in across contracts through 2028. Typical remediation against NIST 800-171 runs six to twelve months, and C3PAO assessor queues have been running roughly six to eight months on top. If a recompete or new award sits eighteen months out, the start date is now — set by addition, not by urgency.
The obligation arrives through the supply chain, not just the contract office. Primes flow the requirements down to their subs — New Jersey alone has roughly nine hundred manufacturers in the DoD supply chain — so a shop that has never signed a federal contract can still be asked for its SPRS score by its biggest customer. It is the same downstream pattern hospital-affiliated practices and outside counsel see from theirs.
Our work is scoping first: define where CUI actually lives, shrink that boundary to a defensible enclave, and apply the 110 controls of 800-171 there rather than across the whole plant. See CMMC and NIST 800-171 compliance for the framework detail, or the other industries we serve.
Where the work concentrates
Scoping CUI and shrinking the boundary
Enclave design, including government cloud where required
System Security Plan and POA&M upkeep
SPRS self-assessment scoring
DFARS 72-hour incident-reporting readiness
Evidence assembly for the C3PAO assessment
What we run for defense suppliers
From first gap assessment to a maintained, assessable environment — documented at every step, because the documents are the deliverable.
Gap assessment against 800-171
A control-by-control review producing your SSP, POA&M, and an honest SPRS score — the documents the whole process runs on. Start at CMMC compliance.
Enclave architecture
Network segmentation and cloud enclave design that keep CUI inside a small, controlled boundary instead of dragging the whole company into scope.
Managed IT for plant and office
Managed IT that covers the front office and the shop floor without treating production machines as just more desktops.
Monitoring and response
MDR and logging aligned to 800-171’s audit and monitoring families — monitored around the clock by our tooling, with engineer escalation.
Incident-reporting readiness
Incident response planning built around DFARS 252.204-7012’s 72-hour DoD reporting requirement, rehearsed before it is needed.
Assessment preparation
Through strategic IT, a named lead who keeps evidence current and manages the C3PAO engagement from scheduling through close-out.
Common questions from suppliers
We only sell to a prime, never to the DoD directly. Does CMMC apply to us?
If CUI or federal contract information reaches you, yes — primes are required to flow the clauses down, and most are already asking subs for SPRS scores ahead of any formal assessment requirement. Your contract with the prime, not a DoD contract, is what carries the obligation.
Which CMMC level do we need?
The contract specifies it. Handling only federal contract information points to Level 1 self-assessment; handling CUI generally means Level 2, with third-party assessment for most awards. We help you determine what you actually hold — many shops carry less CUI than they fear, and honest scoping is the cheapest control there is.
How long does this take?
Plan on six to twelve months of remediation for a typical shop, plus assessor scheduling that has been running six to eight months out. Work backward from your next award or recompete date; if the total does not fit, starting earlier is the only variable you control.
Do the CMMC math for your contracts.
An assessment gives you a scoped boundary, an honest SPRS score, and a remediation plan with dates — you keep it either way.