Before CMMC, there was DFARS 252.204-7012, and it never went away. If your contracts carry the clause family, you owe NIST SP 800-171 safeguarding, 72-hour incident reporting, and a score in SPRS that primes actually read.
Implement NIST SP 800-171 on covered systems, and rapidly report cyber incidents to DoD within 72 hours of discovery.
A current NIST SP 800-171 self-assessment score posted to SPRS is a condition of award. No score, no contract.
Gives the government access to conduct its own Basic, Medium, or High assessment of your implementation.
Carries CMMC certification requirements into contracts as the program phases in. DFARS is where CMMC lives contractually.
The flow-down is real: compliance extends to your suppliers and subcontractors. A prime's clause becomes your clause, and yours becomes your machine shop's.
Most of what DFARS demands is control implementation, and the RegDOX enclave carries that implementation as its engineered default: encryption in transit and at rest, tamper-proof audit trails, granular permissions, multi-factor authentication, and provider shielding, running on exclusively U.S.-based hosting.
When the 72-hour clock starts on an incident, the audit trail is the difference between a report you generate and a weekend you lose. And every control the platform carries is a point on the SPRS score a contracting officer sees before they see anything else about you.
Let’s review your posture against the clause family, and what the platform would take off your list before the next award decision.
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