CMMC at a Crossroads: What Defense Contractors Need to Know—and Do—Now
How defense contractors can navigate CMMC uncertainty—without pausing progress or wasting completed work
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Recent CMMC developments and the latest Request for Information (RFI) have created understandable uncertainty across the defense industrial base. Should you keep preparing? Is an independent assessment still necessary? What obligations remain while the program's future is being decided?
Join compliance, assessment, and technology practitioners for a practical conversation on what may be changing, what has not, and how contractors can make sound decisions now. The panel will explain why NIST SP 800-171, contractual, and evidentiary obligations remain in effect—and why current uncertainty is not a reason to stop the security and compliance work you have already budgeted and begun.
What you'll learn
- How to decide whether to pause, proceed, or adjust CMMC investments—and how to explain that decision to executives and budget owners
- Which NIST SP 800-171, contractual, and evidentiary obligations remain regardless of the final assessment model
- How a self-assessment changes—but does not eliminate—the need for documentation, evidence, and defensibility
- Why prime contractors and customers may still require independent validation from subcontractors
- How to protect and build on completed work while preparing for NIST SP 800-171 Revision 3 and broader civilian-agency requirements
- How to use the RFI process to share your experience and influence the program's direction
Who should attend
- Defense contractors and subcontractors in the defense industrial base
- Security, compliance, risk, and IT leaders responsible for NIST SP 800-171 or CMMC readiness
- Program, contracts, and executive leaders making investment and customer-assurance decisions
- Organizations preparing for a self-assessment, C3PAO assessment, customer review, or future government inquiry
Don't miss out!
Secure your place now. You'll leave with a clear view of what to keep doing today, how to communicate the situation to leadership, and how to build a compliance program that can withstand customer scrutiny, an independent assessment, or a future government inquiry.
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