Ep 119 CMMC & the Defense Industrial Base – Are You Ready?

DoD tossed the revisions to the OMB; the 300,000 people in the DIB are waiting with 'bated breath to see what it looks like in the Federal Register. Will it be a "final" rule? Will it be an "interim" rule?

The first paragraph sounds like an academic dispute in an ivory tower; that "tower talk" is particularly important for the 300,000 companies that comprise the defense industrial base. Today, sit down with Kevin Hancock from Exostar. He will give you his thoughts on this important piece of federal regulation.

If you wanted to classify this transition as revolution or evolution, you would have to side with the Darwin followers. The CMMC is not anything new, this is just the next logical step.

Smaller companies may earn a living as subcontractors to a large prime contractor. The large organizations are making inquiries to all their partners to see where they stand with CMMC. May are looking in the mirror and asking, where do I start?

During the interview, Kevin Hancock from Exostar breaks the process down into segments that any company can understand. He explains that ten companies may have ten different sets of requirements to comply with CMMC.

For example, do you have the expertise to run the requirement in-house? Even if you did, is this the optime way to use their time? Will an application from a company like Exostar be able to leverage the skill set you have in-house?

Your company may just need a few templates to complete. However, you may be in a situation where you are looking at six months to complete an 18-month project. Had you started earlier, you would not have been in the situation.

We all understand that CMMC was put in place to safeguard controlled unclassified information and controlled unclassified information. These are reasonable requirements, yet each person listening to this podcast may have a different journey. Exostar can help.

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