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Field notes on CMMC readiness, security programs, risk decisions, controls, and the documentation that keeps security work moving.
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CMMC readiness is now a practical contract-readiness issue for defense contractors and subcontractors that handle FCI or CUI.
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CMMC Phase 1 is active. Here is what small manufacturers, machine shops, and DoD suppliers should do with SPRS, SSPs, POA&Ms, affirmations, cloud services, and evidence.
NFO controls were removed from NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3, but the lesson remains: a checklist does not replace a working security program.
Administrative, preventive, detective, corrective, and compensating controls work together to reduce risk without turning security into theater.
A practical risk management program helps leadership understand cybersecurity risk, assign ownership, choose controls, and revisit decisions over time.
FAR, DFARS, NIST SP 800-171, and CMMC overlap, but each plays a different role in contract cybersecurity readiness.
NIST SP 800-171 tells contractors what CUI safeguards are expected. CMMC is the DoD program for verifying those safeguards.
FAR 52.204-21 and DFARS 252.204-7012 both deal with safeguarding information, but they apply to different data and different obligations.
