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According to the Pentagon, “We will not defeat our adversaries with compliance checklists; we will defeat them by rapidly fielding superior capabilities produced by an expanded, resilient American industrial base.” This was in a memo issued on July 13, notifying US military higher-ups that the government is suspending the planned deadline for Phase 2 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance program, which was originally supposed to go into effect in November.
I mentioned this briefly in a recent post on Lincsolution, a South Korean AM firm that just announced it’s building capacity to prioritize aerospace and defense customers, which at this point is more or less a prerequisite for participating in the AM industry. The quote from the Pentagon memo almost makes m