Lost defense contracts when CMMC enforcement ramps
Primes are already requiring suppliers to show a CMMC pathway. "We're working on it" loses the next bid.
CMMC and defense cybersecurity pathway
Walk into the assessment with a team that owns its controls.
For defense contractors and subcontractors carrying DFARS and CMMC flow-downs. Train the people who touch CUI on NIST SP 800-171 as it applies to your systems, and give your ISMS a document control and evidence trail an assessor can follow.
Your procedures, your findingsA named person signs every outputISO 27001 certified, CMMC Level 2 compliant, ITAR compliant
The stakes
What is at risk if the team is not ready.
Failed C3PAO assessment
C3PAOs aren't ISO 9001 registrars. They're harder, more expensive, and rare. A failed assessment burns 6+ months and full reassessment fees.
Insufficient SSP and POA&M documentation
The two artifacts the assessor opens first. Generic templates fail. Your SSP has to reflect your actual environment and your POA&M has to reflect actual gap closure.
CUI handling violations from undertrained staff
One engineer emailing a CAD file to a personal Gmail account. One marked-up drawing in an unencrypted shared drive. One contract terminated.
The outcome
What your team becomes.
Thirty days after rollout, this is what changes.
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NIST 800-171 control ownersEach of the 14 control families has a named owner on your team who understands what assessment objectives look like and can produce the evidence.
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CMMC-assessment-readyYour team knows the difference between Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3, and what evidence each requires. They've practiced the questions a C3PAO will ask.
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SSP and POA&M practitionersYour team builds and maintains the System Security Plan and Plan of Action & Milestones in your environment, not a templated copy.
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CUI-aware across the organizationEngineers, program managers, sales, and finance all know what CUI is, how to handle it, and what triggers a reportable incident.
What is included
The courses in this pathway.
Every course is adapted to your procedures and your examples before your team sees it. One course for one team, or a program across roles and sites. Neither requires buying the full platform.
Available
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Build and run an ISMS: scope, risk assessment, Statement of Applicability, internal audit, management review. The same system we run ourselves and hold a certificate for.
See the course catalog ↗In development
CMMC and NIST SP 800-171
The 110 controls as your team will meet them: CUI identification, access control, incident response, the SSP and POA&M as living documents. Ask on the demo for the current state and timing.
See the course catalog ↗Course availability, learner group and customization scope are confirmed before purchase. Standards references identify the subject matter, not endorsement by the standards owner.
After the training
What the platform does in this pathway.
Policies, procedures and evidence are most of an assessment. These workflows keep them controlled, current and attributable.
01
Document control and memory
Draft, redline, route, release. Every revision numbered and immutable. Questions are answered only from your released documents, with the number, the revision, and who signed it. A withdrawn revision cannot be cited by any route.
02
Internal Auditor
Plans the audit, carries the checklist and the turtle, and drafts AS9101-style findings from the evidence you record. The report issues when the lead auditor signs it, and not before.
03
Training matrix and competency records
People by competency. Every cell clicks through to its certificate, its date, and its expiry. Gaps and lapses surface before the auditor finds them.
04
Records and registers
NCR, CAR, SCAR, objectives, suppliers, licenses. One ledger, append-only, every disposition signed by a named person with a date.
The AI proposes. A qualified person signs. Nothing is born approved.
Workflows are scoped per engagement. See all eight on the homepage ↗
Who built this
Built by auditors.
Not a course company that added AI.
Every course and every workflow was written by practitioners who have sat on both sides of the registrar's table: third-party AS9100 and ISO 9001 auditing, 20 years of aerospace quality, and the consulting engagements that came after the findings.
What that means for you
- Content written to what auditors actually check, not to the standard's table of contents
- Scenarios drawn from real findings, with the names taken off
- Every AI output stays a draft until a named person on your team signs it
- You would be one of our first platform customers. Ask us what that buys you.
Before you book
Your questions, answered.
Does this make us CMMC certified?
No training does. Certification comes from a C3PAO assessment against your implemented controls. This gets the people who own those controls ready to operate them and to evidence them.
Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3?
Most suppliers are landing at Level 2 and that is where the content is aimed. Level 1 is a subset. Level 3 is a delta on top; raise it on the demo if it is your primary need.
Is your own platform assessed?
QMS Learning holds ISO 27001 certification and has mapped its controls to NIST SP 800-171. Ask for the certificate and the Statement of Applicability. Send your security questionnaire and we will answer it.
What if our prime has not told us our required level yet?
Train to Level 2. Level 1 is included in it, and waiting for the letter costs you the months the controls take to bed in.
Bring your SSP, or the blank page where it should be.
Thirty minutes. We look at where your controls and documents actually stand and scope the pathway to the people who own them.
Book a 30 minute demo ↗