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A compliance platform written for defense contractors and nobody else. Automate the work behind CMMC Level 2 certification, stay compliant between assessments, and go after Department of Defense contracts knowing exactly where you stand.
14 open items, each with an owner, a due date and remediation steps.
What is CMMC Level 2?
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification sets one common cybersecurity standard across the Defense Industrial Base. Level 2 is the tier most defense contractors land on, because it applies to anyone working with Controlled Unclassified Information.
The defense contractor standard
The cybersecurity framework expected of any organization that handles Controlled Unclassified Information under a defense contract.
110 security requirements
A complete control set taken from NIST SP 800-171r2 and organised into fourteen security domains.
Confirmed by a third party
Most Level 2 contracts call for a C3PAO assessment, though some lower-sensitivity contracts still allow an annual self-assessment.
Built for defense contractors, by compliance experts
Aphelia CMMC is a compliance automation platform made solely for defense industrial base contractors working toward Level 2 certification. We know how much effort protecting Controlled Unclassified Information takes, and how little of that effort a business can afford to lose from day-to-day operations.
Why defense contractors choose Aphelia CMMC
The platform that puts CMMC certification within reach of an organization of any size.
Automated assessment
Immediate analysis of more than 55 controls, covering access control, audit and accountability, and system protection.
Manual frameworks
Thorough assessment guides for the organizational controls, such as training, incident response and physical security.
Real-time dashboard
Compliance tracked visually across all fourteen control families, with gap analysis and insights you can act on.
NIST SP 800-171 aligned
Complete alignment with the NIST SP 800-171r2 standard for protecting CUI inside defense contracting environments.
Secure architecture
Enterprise-grade protection throughout, with encrypted data storage and role-based access control.
Gap identification
Compliance gaps surfaced automatically, each one paired with a prioritised recommendation for putting it right.
Continuous monitoring
Compliance watched without pause, with automatic alerts when configurations change or new vulnerabilities appear.
Evidence collection
Compliance evidence gathered and arranged for you, so the package stays ready for audit at any point.
Risk assessment
Risk scoring and assessment tooling built in, matched to how your organization already manages risk.
Aphelia CMMC vs a traditional auditor
Where the weeks go in a conventional CMMC Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) engagement, and what each of those steps costs you on Aphelia CMMC instead.
| Assessment step | Traditional auditor | Aphelia CMMC | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 2 to 3 months to initiate an audit | Instant access to scans and review | 99+% faster |
| Policy review | 1 to 2 weeks of manual review and control mapping | About 20 minutes using AI policy analysis | 99+% faster |
| SAST scan | Days to weeks of manual review and testing | 3 to 4 hours | Up to 10x faster |
| DAST scan | Days to weeks | 3 to 4 hours | Up to 10x faster |
| Evidence collection | Hours to days collecting documentation | Automated in minutes | Up to 10x faster |
| Gap analysis | Days to weeks | Instant once the scan finishes | 99+% faster |
| Remediation | Manual consultant recommendations, weeks apart | AI-prioritised in minutes | Actionable immediately |
| Compliance monitoring | Quarterly reviews | Continuous, 24/7 | Always audit-ready |
| Compliance dashboard | Static spreadsheets and reports | Live dashboard with current SPRS and testing scores | Live visibility |
Frequently asked questions
The questions defense contractors bring us every week.
It follows the information your contract puts in your hands. Handle only Federal Contract Information and Level 1 applies. Store, process or move Controlled Unclassified Information and you are at Level 2. A small number of programs supporting the DoD's most sensitive work reach Level 3.
The level is stated in the solicitation. If you are not sure, we will read your current contracts and tell you what they oblige before you spend anything.
Level 1 is a yearly self-assessment affirmed by a senior official. Most Level 2 contracts call for a certification assessment by an authorized C3PAO every three years, although a narrower band of lower-sensitivity Level 2 programs may still self-assess annually.
Either way the affirmation is a formal statement to the government, and the evidence behind it has to be genuine. Keeping that evidence honest is exactly what the platform does.
A mid-sized contractor with a reasonable IT baseline typically needs six to twelve months from kickoff to assessment. Anyone starting without an SSP, a defined CUI boundary, or with a large legacy estate should plan for longer.
The assessment itself is rarely the bottleneck. Remediation time and assessor availability are, which is why starting before a solicitation forces your hand matters.
No. Technuf is not a C3PAO, and no organization is permitted both to prepare you and to certify you. We get you ready, build and document the controls, rehearse the assessment with you, and support you through the real one with the authorized assessment organization you choose.
A Plan of Action & Milestones records what you have not met yet, with the plan and date for closing each item. CMMC permits conditional status against a POA&M only for a limited subset of requirements, subject to a minimum score, and those items must close inside a fixed window before final status is granted.
The highest-weighted requirements cannot sit on a POA&M at all. The platform marks which of your open items qualify and which are hard blockers.
The NIST SP 800-171 methodology starts you at 110 and deducts weighted points for every requirement you have not met, so a score can drop below zero. It is submitted to the Supplier Performance Risk System, where contracting officers can see it.
Because the deductions are weighted differently, the order you tackle gaps in changes how quickly the number recovers. The platform sequences remediation on exactly that basis.
Not on its own, though it certainly helps. A compliant hosting environment covers part of the inherited control set. The requirements governing how your people, processes and configurations use it stay with you, and that is where most assessments run into trouble.
The platform separates inherited controls from the ones you own, so you are not paying to prove your cloud provider's work all over again.
No. The platform holds compliance metadata and evidence artifacts rather than your operational CUI. Connections are read-only and least-privilege, storage is encrypted and access is role-based.
Where everything has to stay inside your own boundary, we will go through the deployment options during scoping.
Because it decides how much of your estate the assessment covers. Draw the boundary too wide and you are certifying systems that never touch Controlled Unclassified Information, at considerable cost. Draw it too narrow and the assessment finds CUI somewhere you said it would not be.
Scoping is the first thing we work through with you, before any tooling is connected, because every later decision depends on getting it right.
It depends on the size of your CUI boundary, how many systems fall in scope, and how much of the remediation you want us to carry rather than your own team. A demo and initial scoping conversation cost nothing and produce a fixed proposal rather than a range.
