The Department of Defense has suspended the CMMC Phase 2 transition that was set to take effect on November 10, 2026. For contractors handling CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information), this means a third-party CMMC Level 2 assessment won’t be required for now, and subcontractors can continue after completing a self-assessment.
Many businesses have a general sense of what they spend on technology. The monthly software subscriptions, managed service agreement, and licenses auto renew every year and are therefore very simple to keep track of. What far fewer businesses have a clear picture of is what their spending is actually returning.
There is a lot of noise around AI and the ramifications it will have on the workforce, but we believe most of these concerns miss the point. The real story isn’t that AI is eliminating jobs, it’s eliminating certain job tasks that were never a good use of a talented employees time in the first place.
Have you ever made a suggestion to a client for possible improvement and they answered with, “We’ve always done it this way”. This usually comes from a good place. If the system works, why fix what isn’t broken and possibly making work more complicated for your team to learn a new method, tool, or system. Well, in our 20+ years in business we’ve learned time and time again, just because something isn’t broke doesn’t mean it isn’t costing you.
Lost Money and Time
Legacy systems and outdated technology have a way of
