Solution

Navigating CMMC with Confidence and Clarity

End-to-end CMMC readiness for contractors who cannot afford a failed assessment.

From first scoping conversation through a clean C3PAO assessment, and the continuous monitoring that keeps you certified afterward, Maverc supports the defense contractors holding consequential DoD work through every phase of CMMC.

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The Challenge

CMMC is now a real, enforced contract requirement. With DFARS 252.204-7021 finalized and primes flowing the requirement down their supply chain, any organization that processes, stores, or transmits Controlled Unclassified Information needs a C3PAO assessment to keep its DoD work. The technical bar, 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls, evidenced and operating, is firm, and assessor scoring leaves little room for interpretation. Failing the first attempt costs months of contract risk, conditional certification overhead, and a second round of remediation. Passing the first time is a function of preparation, not luck.

Since 2019

leading CMMC readiness

RPO

Registered Provider Organization

DIB

defense-focused practitioners

End-to-end

scoping through sustainment

Overview

How this solution works

Maverc has supported CMMC readiness since the framework's earliest 2019 drafts, long before the final DFARS rule made it a contract requirement. Our team includes some of the original Registered Practitioners trained under the Cyber AB ecosystem, and we've worked with defense contractors of every size, from single-shop machine shops to publicly traded primes, taking them from "we haven't opened 800-171 yet" to a first-time-pass C3PAO assessment. As a Registered Provider Organization we work strictly on the preparation side, and what we build is designed to hold up in front of an assessor, not just look complete in a binder.

Outcomes you'll see

First-time-pass C3PAO certification with a defensible SSP and realistic POA&M
Properly scoped, isolated CUI and FCI environments that minimize assessment surface
Policies and procedures aligned to NIST 800-171 and to what your team actually does
Engineered, evidenced security controls, not paperwork compliance
Sustainable, continuously monitored compliance through the next assessment cycle and beyond
Retained DoD prime and subcontract awards that depend on certification status

Capabilities

What's included

Engineered components delivered as a unified, outcome-driven platform.

Gap Assessment, DoD Assessment Methodology scoring across all 110 NIST 800-171 controls with prioritized remediation roadmap

CUI Scoping & Enclave Design, purpose-built environments on Microsoft 365 GCC High, Azure Government, or AWS GovCloud that shrink scope by 70 to 90 percent

SSP & POA&M Authoring, control-by-control implementation language tied to operational evidence, not boilerplate

Policies & Procedures Review, evaluated and rebuilt to align with CMMC, NIST 800-171, and the way your environment actually runs

Control Engineering & Remediation, FIPS-validated cryptography, MFA, audit logging, vulnerability management, configuration baselines

Managed Services for CMMC, EDR, continuous security monitoring, incident response, and IT support aligned to NIST 800-171 control families

Employee Security Awareness Training, role-based training for general users, privileged operators, and insider-threat awareness

Mock C3PAO Assessment, full-rehearsal walkthrough that mirrors the official scoring methodology and surfaces gaps before the real auditor does

DFARS 252.204-7012 / 7019 / 7020 / 7021 advisory and prime-to-sub flow-down

Building Blocks

Core components

Gap Assessment

DoD-methodology scoring of every NIST 800-171 control, with a prioritized remediation roadmap that tags effort, cost, and POA&M eligibility, so leadership sees the path to certification, not just a list of findings.

CUI Enclave Design

We architect and deploy isolated, FedRAMP-aligned CUI environments, typically Microsoft 365 GCC High plus a hardened endpoint set with strict DLP, that cut your CMMC scope by 70 to 90 percent and pay for themselves in reduced compliance overhead within the first year.

SSP & POA&M

Control-by-control SSP authored in concrete implementation language, with named system owners and pointers to the evidence that proves each control runs in production. POA&Ms are realistic, scoped to the 180-day window, and built to close, not pad.

Managed Services

CMMC-aligned managed services including endpoint detection and response, 24x7 monitoring, incident response, and IT support, all instrumented for the NIST 800-171 control families so evidence collection runs continuously, not at audit time.

Readiness Consulting

Hands-on remediation: identity and access hardening, audit logging coverage, FIPS-validated cryptography, configuration baselines, and the workforce processes that make those controls hold up under interview.

Policies & Procedures

Policies rewritten to match operational reality, mapped one-to-one with the evidence pipelines and system configurations that prove they are followed. No more aspirational documentation that fails on the first interview question.

Mock C3PAO Assessment

An independent team runs the live assessment workflow against your program, SSP review, evidence sampling, staff interviews, and DoD-methodology scoring, so the gaps surface in our office, not in the assessor's. Findings become a focused fix list before the real assessment is scheduled.

Employee Awareness Training

Role-based security awareness training for general users, privileged operators, and insider-threat awareness, delivered with tracked completion records, exactly what the AT family of controls expects to see.

Maverc consultants reviewing CMMC control evidence with a defense client during pre-assessment readiness — RPO-led readiness
Built to survive the assessor in the room — not just the binder on the shelf.

Delivery Model

How we deliver

Scope

Identify FCI versus CUI in your contracts, define the assessment boundary using the official CMMC scoping guide, and document data flows so nothing in scope is a surprise to the assessor.

Assess

Detailed gap assessment against NIST 800-171 with evidence review, DoD-methodology scoring, and a prioritized remediation roadmap with realistic effort and cost estimates.

Design

CUI enclave architecture, identity and conditional access design, DLP, audit logging, and policy and procedure development tailored to your environment.

Remediate

Hands-on control implementation, technology deployment, evidence pipelines, and security awareness training rolled out across the workforce.

Rehearse

Full mock C3PAO assessment that mirrors the live workflow, SSP review, evidence sampling, staff interviews, followed by a focused fix list.

Sustain

Managed services, SOC support, threat detection, and continuous compliance monitoring through and beyond the C3PAO assessment, including annual affirmations and POA&M closure.

Technologies

Best-of-breed stack

Microsoft 365 GCC HighAzure GovernmentAWS GovCloudMicrosoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Sentinel / SIEMMicrosoft Purview DLPConditional Access & MFAVulnerability Management (Tenable)FIPS 140-2/3 Validated CryptographyIdentity & Access Management

Industries served

Where we deploy

Defense Industrial Base
Aerospace & defense manufacturing
DoD prime and subcontractors
MEP-supported small and mid-size manufacturers
Cloud and managed service providers to DoD

FAQ

Common questions

What is CMMC compliance?

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is the Department of Defense framework for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Federal Contract Information (FCI) across the defense industrial base. It establishes mandatory cybersecurity practices and assessment requirements that contractors must meet to be eligible for, and retain, DoD contracts.

Who needs to be CMMC compliant?

Every contractor and subcontractor in the DoD supply chain that handles CUI or FCI, manufacturers, software vendors, professional services firms, cloud and managed service providers, must achieve the appropriate level of CMMC certification to bid on and execute affected DoD contracts.

What does the CMMC compliance process involve?

Scoping FCI and CUI, gap assessment against NIST 800-171, policy and procedure development, security control implementation and remediation, CUI enclave design, security awareness training, mock assessment, and the formal C3PAO certification assessment, followed by continuous monitoring to maintain certification.

What is a CMMC Registered Provider Organization (RPO)?

An RPO is an organization authorized through the Cyber AB to provide consulting and implementation support for CMMC. RPOs prepare you for assessment but do not perform the official assessment, that work is reserved for C3PAOs. Maverc is an RPO and partners with authorized C3PAOs for the live assessment.

How do I know what level I need to be certified at?

If your contract or subcontract contains DFARS clause 252.204-7012, 7019, 7020, or 7021, you are almost certainly handling CUI and required to achieve CMMC Level 2 certification through a C3PAO. We confirm scope and level during the initial gap assessment by walking your active contracts and data flows.

Do we have to move everything to GCC High?

No. You only need to move CUI handling into a CMMC-aligned environment. We help you scope precisely so only the workflows that actually touch CUI move into the enclave, the rest of the business stays out of scope and out of the assessment.

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