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This session focuses on how organizations can achieve CMMC 2.0 compliance in a cost-effective, sustainable way—without cutting corners or increasing risk.

Participants will examine where CMMC costs typically escalate, why many compliance efforts become unnecessarily expensive, and how disciplined scoping, control reuse, and automation materially reduce spend. The discussion emphasizes smart sequencing, informed tradeoffs, and program design choices that lower total cost of ownership over time.

Topics include:

• The primary cost drivers in CMMC readiness and assessments

• Avoiding over-scoping, redundant controls, and unnecessary tooling

• Leveraging existing investments and shared controls

• Building compliance programs that scale without recurring rework

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This session examines how CMMC 2.0 fits within a broader cybersecurity and privacy compliance landscape, including frameworks such as HIPAA, privacy regulations, and other sector-specific requirements.

Participants will explore where requirements overlap, where they diverge, and how organizations can rationalize multiple compliance obligations into a cohesive, efficient program. The discussion focuses on control reuse, documentation alignment, and governance strategies that reduce duplication while maintaining defensible compliance across regimes.

Topics include:

• Common control and documentation overlaps between CMMC and other frameworks

• Key differences in scope, assessment rigor, and enforcement

• Strategies for harmonizing policies, controls, and evidence

• Avoiding siloed compliance efforts that increase cost and risk

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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) TKO seminar is a course that teaches vendors how to start doing business with DLA Land and Maritime. Vendors learn how to find open solicitations, how to submit a quote through the DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS), the procedures for viewing/downloading drawings, and how to use Invoicing, Receipt, Acceptance and Property Transfer (iRAPT) to get paid. There are also many other relevant topics of discussion. This session is free.

This Documentation Masterclass provides a deep, practical dive into the documentation that underpins successful CMMC 2.0 compliance.

The session focuses on how assessors actually evaluate documentation—what they expect to see, how artifacts must align with implemented controls, and where organizations most often fail despite having “complete” documents. Rather than templates in isolation, the discussion emphasizes traceability between policies, procedures, controls, and objective evidence.

Key areas include:

• Building and maintaining high-quality SSPs and POA&Ms

• Creating documentation that reflects real operations, not aspirational intent

• Establishing clear linkage between requirements, controls, and evidence

• Avoiding common documentation gaps that trigger findings or rework

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This session focuses on CMMC Program Management—how to plan, govern, and sustain compliance as an ongoing operational function rather than a one-time project.

Participants will learn how to structure ownership, align stakeholders, manage timelines, and track progress across policies, controls, documentation, and evidence. The discussion emphasizes governance, accountability, and repeatability, ensuring CMMC efforts remain aligned with business operations, contract demands, and audit expectations over time.

Topics include:

• Defining roles, responsibilities, and executive ownership

• Building and maintaining an integrated CMMC roadmap

• Managing SSPs, POA&Ms, evidence, and continuous monitoring

• Measuring progress and maintaining readiness between assessments

GSA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) invites you to join our OSDBU Office Hours—an open space created just for YOU. Small businesses like yours are the backbone of innovation and growth in the federal marketplace. 

Please share this with your clients, businesses, networks and/or small business community. You can also find this EVENT advertised on SAM.gov as well. 

What to Expect:

• Overview of how to find contracting opportunities using: 

• System for Award Management (SAM)

• GSA Forecast Tool 

• Live Q&A session with OSDBU SBTAs

his session explains how CMMC 2.0 intersects with existing DFARS cybersecurity requirements, and what that overlap means in practice for defense contractors.

Participants will examine how CMMC builds on DFARS 252.204-7012 and NIST SP 800-171 rather than replacing them, including where requirements are truly identical, where expectations have been clarified, and where enforcement is materially changing. The discussion helps separate what organizations may already have in place from what still requires remediation or stronger evidence.

Topics include:

• The relationship between DFARS 252.204-7012, NIST SP 800-171, and CMMC

• Which existing controls and documentation can be leveraged

• Where CMMC raises the bar through assessment and validation

• Common misconceptions that lead to overconfidence or gaps

Join us as we go over the importance of JCP Certification in defense contracting. The JCP was established in 1985 to allow United States (U.S.)/Canadian contractors to apply for access to Department of Defense/Department of National Defense (DOD/DND) unclassified export controlled technical data/critical technology on an equally favorable basis in accordance with DODD 5230.25, “Withholding of Unclassified Technical Data and Technology from Public Disclosure,” and Canadian Technical Data Control Regulations.

We will learn about JCP requirements and application process along with DEV (DLA Enhanced Validation) – formerly EJCP.

CMMC 2.0 Level 2 is no longer theoretical — it is operational reality for thousands of Defense Industrial Base companies handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The organizations that approach it strategically will protect margin, preserve eligibility, and strengthen long-term resilience. Those that do not will face costly, rushed remediation under contract pressure.
In this session, we break down how to move from awareness to execution.
Aligned with NIST SP 800-171 and DFARS requirements, we walk through a structured approach to:

• Define scope and identify CUI flows

• Conduct a defensible gap assessment

• Prioritize remediation activities

• Build policies, controls, and evidence in parallel

• Establish an audit-ready System Security Plan (SSP) and POA&M

• Prepare for third-party assessment when required

This webinar will showcase Project Spectrum’s real-world impact while laying out a clear, credible vision for how small and mid-sized organizations can survive—and compete—in the cybersecurity environment of 2026 and beyond.
 

Core Focus:

• “The Cyber Threat Landscape in 2026”

• Project Spectrum case study: user success story

• Looking ahead: The future of cyber support

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