Army MAPS Shows How CMMC Scoring Will Actually Work

The Army just dropped a $50B reality check on the Defense Industrial Base. Their Marketplace for Acquisition of Professional Services (MAPS) solicitation isn’t just another contract announcement, it’s the first major reveal of how CMMC Level 2 certification will translate into competitive advantage (or disadvantage) in federal contracting. Here’s what DIB contractors need to understand: […]

CMMC Level 1 Requires 17 Safeguards 15 Controls

The official FAR clause lists 15 safeguards, but CMMC documentation often references 17 practices. Here is why: 

CMMC inherited the DoD’s earlier mapping from the DFARS 252.204-21 “Basic Safeguarding” table, where two of the FAR requirements were split into multiple CMMC practice IDs during modeling. They are not additional requirements—just a structural carryover from the original DoD-to-NIST mapping exercise.