Defense Contracts Now Require Cybersecurity Certification.
The best time to start this process was a year ago. The second-best time to start is today.
Yes, the process is probably complicated by the pending deadline, but Pilot Will Get You To Assessment Readiness Efficiently.
The Compliance Window is Closing
Forty Years of Regulatory Compliance. CMMC Is the Newest Discipline.
- A regulatory mindset, not a checklist mindset. We have spent four decades reading between the lines of federal regulation. CMMC's 110 NIST 800-171 practices will be accomplished with our experience and long developed compliance tools (including our proprietary CertTrac compliance management tool).
- Defense Cyber Solutions has worked with NIST 800-171 since before CMMC was mandated by the DoD. Working with Pilot, they bring the technical cybersecurity depth; Pilot brings the program management and audit-readiness rigor.
- Pilot is a team that knows how to translate government requirements into engineering reality and regulatory documentation. Pilot works with your team to navigates compliance when the framework's intent collides with your operational reality.
Five Steps to CMMC 2.0 Certification
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If You Bid on and conduct DoD Contracts, This Applies to You.
If you handle CUI as part of a prime contractor relationship, your prime is already asking when you will be certified. We have decades of experience working alongside Tier 1 and Tier 2 organizations and understand how compliance work fits into a busy supplier operation.
Many of our long-standing automotive clients are exploring or actively bidding on DoD contracts as defense electrification, ground vehicle modernization, and autonomous systems programs expand. We can guide the same companies we have known for years through this new regulatory regime.
Companies with 50 to 500 employees often have the technical capability to comply but lack the dedicated compliance staff to execute. We provide that staff for the duration of your CMMC project — and only for the duration of your CMMC project.
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Common Questions
Six to twelve months from kickoff to a passed C3PAO assessment, depending on your starting security posture and your availability to support the CMMC L2 process. Companies with mature IT security programs, available internal staff (e.g., IT personnel) and existing NIST 800-171 alignment can move faster. Companies starting from scratch should plan on the full twelve months.
CMMC Level 2 engagements vary based on company size, system complexity, and remediation scope. The cost is affected by current readiness, your availability to support the processes, the boundary conditions of Cyber Security effected areas, and post assessment (carry on) services. We provide a fixed-fee scope after the initial scoping conversation, so you know what you are committing to before signing anything.
No — by federal mandate, certification audits must be performed by an independent Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO). We prepare you for that audit. We can recommend C3PAOs we have worked with successfully; Pilot will stay engaged through the audit itself to support evidence requests.
We work to ensure that does not happen. Our process is built around preparing you so thoroughly that the C3PAO audit is confirmation, not discovery. If a finding does emerge during assessment, we help you build a corrective action plan and reset. With proper (e.g., Pilot led and provided) preparation, this is rare. In our team’s 10-year history, every assessment has been successful.
If there is a reasonable possibility your business will bid on DoD contracts, in the next three years, directly or as a subcontractor to a prime, the answer is yes. CMMC certification takes months, not weeks, and most companies discover the certification requirement too late to act on it before a specific bid window. This can lead to a delay in the receiving of DoW related contracts.