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Why Spreadsheets Keep Failing
Most compliance officers didn’t choose the spreadsheet. It’s what was already open the day the first contract with a flowdown clause showed up, and it just kept growing from there. One tab became five. Five became a workbook nobody wants to open on a Friday. The trouble is a spreadsheet doesn’t fail the way a…
The Great Compliance Handoff
Why Shifting the Burden to Contractors Made Defense Manufacturing Better For most of the last eighty years, the story of aerospace and defense compliance has quietly been rewritten around one central question: Who is responsible for quality? The plot twist is that the answer has ultimately been good for everyone. If you have spent any…
How DCMA Surveillance Works and What It Means for Your Operations
Many defense manufacturers think of the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) as the agency that arrives when it is time for an audit or formal review. That is only part of the picture. For manufacturers with active Department of Defense contracts, DCMA oversight may be an ongoing part of doing business. The agency does not…
How to Write a Compliant Subcontract for a Commercial Item Under FAR Part 12
The FAR technically retired the term “commercial item.” A few years back it split into two defined terms, commercial product and commercial service, both at FAR 2.101. Everyone in the industry, including us in the title of this post, still says “commercial item” out of habit. That’s fine as shorthand. The problem is when a subcontract template still reflects the old, looser…
GSA Has a Framework for Which FAR Clauses You Can Negotiate. Your Purchasing System Should Too.
If you’ve ever sat across from a contracting officer and asked “can we adjust this clause,” you already know the honest answer is usually “it depends on which clause.” GSA has written that logic down, in an OEM engagement packet for its OneGov Strategy, the initiative aimed at large software and cloud OEMs like Microsoft, AWS, and Elastic. Buried in that…
CMMC Phase II Is Suspended. Your FAR, DFARS, and CAS Obligations Are Not.
On July 13, 2026, the Department of Defense announced the immediate suspension of CMMC Phase II. This third-party cybersecurity assessment requirement was scheduled to take effect on November 10, 2026. DoD CIO Kirsten Davies is forming a 60-day CMMC Reform Task Force to review the certification program. For now, no one knows what the program…