On Sept. 10, 2025, the Department Defense (DoD) issued a final rule amending the Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program for government contractors.
Continue Reading Recapping CMMC Level 3: Considerations for Government Contractors
Starting Nov. 10, 2025, contractors and subcontractors handling controlled unclassified information (CUI) may be required to have a current CMMC Level 2 self-assessment for new contracts and option exercises involving CUI.
Continue Reading Recapping CMMC Level 2: Considerations for Government Contractors
On Sept. 10, 2025, the Department Defense (DoD) issued a final rule amending the Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program for government contractors. This final rule established a November 10, 2025 go-live date for the start of phase 1 of CMMC. As we covered in our prior
On Aug. 15, 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) published a proposed rule that would implement contract clauses under 48 CFR related to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program (Proposed Rule). DoD previously published a related proposed rule that would implement the CMMC 2.0 Program under 32 CFR 170 and provided the relevant security
On May 10, 2023, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Revision 3 to its foundational publication, 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations. The publication provides guidelines for protecting sensitive unclassified information in contractor systems, and these guidelines establish the baseline cybersecurity requirements for federal defense contractors.
On Dec. 13, 2019, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) released Draft 0.7 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework. The CMMC framework will be used by third party auditors to certify that members of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector are complying with the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) baseline