CMMC Readiness Advisory

No CMMC certification, no DoD contract. Are you ready?

The Department of Defense is rolling out CMMC 2.0 requirements across the Defense Industrial Base, and contractors who can't show certified compliance are being locked out of contract awards before they ever get to bid. If your business handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or Federal Contract Information (FCI) — the sensitive but unclassified data DoD contracts often involve — CMMC certification determines whether you can keep bidding at all. We help defense contractors and subcontractors get audit-ready — gap assessments against NIST SP 800-171, System Security Plan (SSP) and Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) development, and pre-assessment readiness reviews built by advisors who have sat on the assessor side of federal audits, not just the applicant side.

  • CMMC Level 1 & 2 gap assessments — see exactly where you stand against the practices assessors will check
  • System Security Plan (SSP) & POA&M development — the core documentation every level requires
  • Pre-assessment readiness review — a dry run before your official C3PAO assessment
  • AI systems handling CUI — if your environment includes AI tools touching Controlled Unclassified Information, that gets folded into the readiness plan, not treated as a separate problem

Priviscopes provides readiness advisory, not official certification. We are not an accredited C3PAO — certification is granted independently by an accredited third-party assessor. Readiness advisory does not guarantee certification.

This service applies to organizations operating within the United States federal contracting system.

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Frequently Asked Questions

They're categories of sensitive but unclassified government information. Federal Contract Information (FCI) is information the government provides or generates for you as part of a contract that isn't meant for public release. Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) is more sensitive — it requires specific safeguarding under federal law, even though it's not classified. Which one (or both) your business handles determines what CMMC level applies to you.

They apply to different situations. CMMC applies if you're a defense contractor or subcontractor handling CUI or FCI as part of a DoD contract. FedRAMP applies if you're a cloud service provider selling software to federal agencies. Most businesses need one or the other, not both — unless you're a cloud provider specifically selling into DoD. Our Federal Compliance Assessment asks a few quick questions up front to point you to the right one.

Assessor independence rules generally prevent the same C3PAO that certifies you from also designing and implementing your controls beforehand — doing both would be a conflict of interest. That's why readiness work happens first, with an independent advisor, before you engage the C3PAO who performs the actual assessment. Skipping that step doesn't just risk a failed first attempt — it can also compromise the assessment's validity if the assessor is the one who built your controls.

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