Although the U.S. Federal Government outsources much of its work to thousands of private contractors, there is at least one thing officials know how to produce in abundance without any outside help: acronyms. Just summarizing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program requires enough of them to fill a bowl of alphabet soup.
The CMMC is a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) program designed to ensure that Defense Industrial Base (DIB) companies, whose work requires handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), are capable of safeguarding that data in compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).