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NIST SP 800-171 Revision 3: What It Means and How Defense Contractors Can Prepare
By Katrina Thompson on Fri, 09/12/2025
These days, defense contractors need to stay nimble where compliance is concerned. As technological threats advance, the need for clarity, specificity, and simplicity increases, leading to changes in the regulations that govern contractor cybersecurity. A recently released US Department of Defense (DoD) memo has spurred rumblings that the underlying NIST framework on which the DoD-mandated CMMC ...