The military services increasingly see small businesses as extensions of their enterprises and are looking at ways to support their security.

The DOD released the proposed rule for the highly anticipated CMMC program.

The submission solidifies the fact that DOD has come to a consensus on a final rule and that CMMC is coming in the not-so-distant future.

Roughly 12,000 contractors are eligible to participate today. With the new rule, that number would expand to 80,000.

The DOD is working with civilian agencies on a new FAR rule that would apply new requirements for vendors that handle controlled unclassified information.

DIB contractors that use Microsoft cloud services may only need to meet a small portion of CMMC's 110 controls after the cloud provider passed its voluntary assessment.

John Sherman and others in the Pentagon are working to eradicate roadblocks keeping cybersecurity startups and other companies from scaling business with the Department of Defense.

The NIST standards have been part of federal law for contractors for several years, but until now, contracting officers have been "lackadaisical" about enforcing them, said the…

DOD will look to cloud vendors to support two of its premier cybersecurity initiatives, CISO Dave McKeown said.

The accreditation body also issued a draft document detailing the assessment process that third-party assessment organizations will need to follow once the final CMMC rule takes effect.