Solving the CMMC Challenge: End-to-End Compliance Support from Coalfire® and C3 Integrated Solutions

CMMC compliance gets complicated fast. If you're a defense contractor managing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) across multiple environments, you've probably experienced the sinking feeling that comes with CMMC compliance planning. Your contract and support data lives in one place. Your engineering applications run on another. Your data visualization/BI tools leverage something else. And maybe you've got some specialized workloads running onsite or elsewhere. Sound familiar?

For years, this reality has created a compliance nightmare. Most CMMC enclave providers specialize in one area, forcing you to consolidate your infrastructure, which can be expensive and disruptive. That’s not a risk you want to take when you're racing against CMMC deadlines that could impact your ability to compete for DoD contracts.

Coalfire and C3 Integrated Solutions have joined forces to change that, delivering comprehensive CMMC compliance support that helps contractors in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) achieve certification faster and stay audit-ready.

A Partnership for Real-World CMMC Complexity

The collaboration combines Coalfire's deep expertise in CMMC and cybersecurity advisory with C3's technical implementation and management capabilities to offer full-spectrum CMMC support—from early boundary scoping and readiness assessments through certification and ongoing compliance management.

Together, Coalfire and C3 close the gap between advisory guidance, technical implementation and ongoing management—delivering the end-to-end CMMC support defense contractors need to achieve and maintain certification.

Our approach meets you where your workloads are and delivers a unified compliance strategy that works for your entire organization, wherever CUI goes.

Why End-to-End CMMC Support Is So Hard to Find

The DoD doesn’t really care where you handle your CUI. What matters is that you’re implementing the NIST SP 800-171 controls that underpin CMMC, that they’re effective everywhere your CUI is and that you can prove it.

This is easier said than done, because implementing those controls looks different in each environment. Access control mechanisms, encryption approaches, audit logging configurations, and incident response capabilities all require platform-specific expertise. When your CUI spans multiple environments, on-premises and in the cloud for instance, you need a team that understands the nuances of each and can create a unified compliance strategy that works across all of them.

That's exactly what this partnership provides.

Key Benefits of Unified CMMC Compliance Across Environments

On the quest for CMMC compliance, consider this partnership a power-up:

• One unified strategy. Instead of developing separate compliance approaches for each environment, you'll get a holistic strategy that addresses your entire infrastructure. We'll identify gaps wherever they exist and implement controls that work together cohesively.
• Reduced vendor complexity. No more coordinating between multiple security firms that don't talk to each other. You'll work with an integrated team that understands your complete environment and will work together to execute across them all.
• Future-proof flexibility. Adding a new platform or shifting workloads doesn't have to mean starting over. We’ll help you build a compliance approach that adapts with your business as it grows and your strategy changes.

The Path Forward

CMMC isn't going away. As the DoD continues rolling out certification requirements across the Defense Industrial Base, the pressure to demonstrate compliance will only intensify. Contracts will be won and lost based on an organization's ability to protect CUI and prove it through formal assessment.

So, the question is, how will you pursue CMMC compliance? Will you disrupt your operations to fit a compliance model? Or will you find a compliance approach that fits your operations?

Coalfire and C3 are committed to making the latter possible. Whether your CUI lives in one environment or many, we’ll help you navigate the journey from boundary scoping and gap identification through certification and beyond.

Key takeaway

Unified CMMC support helps defense contractors stay compliant wherever they handle CUI, without disrupting operations. By combining assessment, engineering, and advisory expertise, Coalfire and C3 make compliance a continuous, scalable process.

From compliance nightmare to dream come true: managing complex CMMC regulation is now easier than ever. Read the Press Release here. 

Ready to discuss your CMMC journey? Contact Coalfire or C3 Integrated Solutions to learn how our partnership can support your organization's path to compliance, regardless of where your CUI resides.