Every year, a senior official at your company affirms to the Department of Defense that your cybersecurity requirements are met.
DefendR turns your own answers into the documentation behind that affirmation, every line traced to a requirement, with a verification link anyone relying on it can check. Level 1 documentation for FCI. Level 2 readiness for CUI.
Built on FAR 52.204-21 · DFARS 252.204-7012 · NIST SP 800-171
Four facts, each one checkable, and what they mean for a shop that holds or wants DoD work.
FAR 52.204-21 has required 15 basic cybersecurity safeguards on any contract involving Federal Contract Information for a decade. Most small shops have been meeting some of them informally all along.
CMMC (32 CFR Part 170) adds a self-assessment every year, a score entered in SPRS, and an affirmation signed by a senior company official that the requirements are met. That affirmation is a representation to the federal government, renewed annually.
The Justice Department's Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative pursues contractors who misstate cybersecurity compliance. Public 2025 settlements include $8.4 million (Raytheon) and $4.6 million (MORSECORP, tied to an inflated SPRS score).
Level 1 does not require a System Security Plan, written policies, or a POA&M; those are Level 2 instruments. So this is not paperwork the government demands. It is the documented basis for the affirmation you sign: an assessment record of all 58 objectives attributed to your own answers, the plan that describes how each practice is handled in your shop, the written policies, the worksheet behind your SPRS score, and an honest report of what is not met. Each carries a verification link that proves the document is what it was when generated, from those answers, on that date.
Not a certification, and not a statement that you are compliant. The Gap Report tells you what to fix; the safeguards themselves are yours to implement. Sources: FAR 52.204-21; 32 CFR 170.15 and 170.22; U.S. Department of Justice settlement announcements, 2025.
Every DoD contract now asks you to put your cybersecurity posture on the record, and that affirmation is a representation to the government. DefendR does the drafting from your own answers, so every line traces to a real requirement and to what you told us. Payment happens after your assessment is complete, not before.
Answer a few plain-language questions about how you operate.
Your documents are drafted from your answers, checked line by line against them, and delivered.
Every line traces to a requirement and your own answers.
Whether you handle Federal Contract Information, handle CUI, or advise DIB clients as a consultant, DefendR fits how you work.
Generate defensible documentation for each client from their own answers. Your time goes to advisory work and gap analysis, not drafting.
You handle Federal Contract Information and need CMMC Level 1 documentation to keep your DoD contracts, without a $15,000-plus consulting engagement. DefendR prepares it in days, not months.
You handle Controlled Unclassified Information and CMMC Level 2 applies. DefendR measures where you stand against all 110 requirements from your own answers and gives you a verifiable readiness record. Not a certification; the map of what to address before one.
You're part of the defense supply chain and your prime requires CMMC compliance. DefendR makes the documentation straightforward, with no cybersecurity team required.
DefendR's documentation engine maps directly to the full CMMC Level 1 control set, every family and every practice, in the authoritative language your prime and your SPRS submission expect to see.
Every document DefendR generates traces to a real CMMC requirement and to your own answers, line by line. Nothing is invented, and each document carries a verification link a prime or a carrier can check independently.
Every document carries a verification link. Whoever you share it with can review the recorded issuance date and provenance. The lookup does not inspect or verify the contents of a recipient's PDF file.
Your prime contractor can review the document's issuance record through the verification link. That lookup supports its review of your documentation; it does not verify control implementation.
Cyber insurance applications ask for your compliance documentation and treat it as your representation. A verifiable record generated from your own answers is a cleaner representation than a template someone filled in.
Organizations handling CUI hold a Level 2 self-assessment status under Phase 1: a self-assessment against all 110 requirements every three years, affirmed annually in SPRS. A readiness record that already names every gap, and which ones may go on a Plan of Action, is what stands behind that affirmation.
DefendR maintains the document's issuance record and compares a supplied link fingerprint with that record. This lookup does not verify the contents of a recipient's PDF file. It does not verify that your answers are true or that you are compliant; responsibility for the answers remains yours.
Defense manufacturers are automating their compliance documentation with DefendR. Your contracts deserve it.
For CMMC Level 1 self-assessment. Designed for companies handling Federal Contract Information (FCI). Built on NIST SP 800-171. Every document grounded in your own answers and independently verifiable.
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