CMMC and the Three “Cs”: Cost, Conflicts and Competition

Akin Gump – The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program provides a metric for independent third parties to use in assessing and certifying the progress of the approximately 300,000-350,000 contractors and subcontractors in DOD’s supply chain towards adequate cyber safeguarding of confidential information, including controlled unclassified information (CUI), located on their information systems.