Managed IT & Security Operations for Government & Defense Contractors
CMA supports federal and defense contractors across the DC region — engineering firms, technology companies, and professional services firms that hold contracts with DoD and civilian agencies. We run the day-to-day IT systems administration and the security tooling those contracts increasingly expect: endpoint detection and response, identity protection, log monitoring, and vulnerability management.
We serve the contractor community, not government offices themselves. And we are direct about our role: CMA is the IT and security operations team that implements and runs the technical controls, working alongside your compliance consultant or assessor rather than replacing them.
Endpoint and identity threat detection and response deployed, tuned, and monitored on every device and account.
Centralized log collection and security monitoring with alerting and retention.
Scheduled vulnerability scanning with prioritized remediation handled by the same team.
Maryland datacenter for co-location and hosting of sensitive workloads.
What Keeps Leaders Up at Night
Rising Security Expectations
Solicitations and prime flow-downs increasingly require specific technical controls — MFA, EDR, logging, patching — with evidence they are actually running.
Sensitive Contract Data
Contract deliverables, technical data, and customer information need to be identified, protected, and access-controlled without slowing engineers down.
Flow-Down From Primes
Primes are pushing security questionnaires and requirements to subcontractors and asking for proof, not promises.
Cleared & Remote Staff
Engineers on customer sites, remote analysts, and travel all need secure, monitored access to the same systems.
Detection & Incident Response
When something happens you need monitoring that notices, a team that responds, and logs that show what occurred.
No Dedicated IT Staff
Technical firms often have brilliant engineers and no one whose job is patching, backups, and access reviews.
Managed IT Shaped for Gov & Defense Contractors
Everything below is available as a fully managed plan or as individual services. See the Pricing page for how plans and add-ons are structured.
IT Systems Administration
A dedicated engineer and 24/7/365 NOC behind every user, server, and endpoint.
- Managed workstations and servers with full-disk encryption
- Patch management with a documented cadence
- User provisioning, access reviews, and secure offboarding
- Help desk that understands contractor environments
Security Operations
The detection and response layer contracts increasingly expect — deployed and run by CMA.
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) on every device
- Identity threat detection and response (ITDR) for Microsoft 365 / Entra accounts
- SIEM log collection, monitoring, alerting, and retention
- Scheduled vulnerability scanning with remediation
Control Implementation
We implement the technical controls your requirements call for and help you produce evidence that they’re working.
- MFA and conditional access across email, VPN, and cloud apps
- Security awareness training and phishing simulation
- Configuration hardening and audit logging
- Evidence exports and reports for your compliance consultant or assessor
Hosting & Continuity
Datacenter services for workloads that can’t live in a closet.
- Co-location and managed hosting in a Tier IV facility
- Backup and disaster recovery with tested restores
- Hosted desktops for controlled access from any location
- Incident response support and documentation
Why Organizations in This Sector Choose CMA
We Run the Controls
Security tools are only useful if someone tunes them, watches them, and acts on alerts. That’s our job, every day.
Honest About Scope
We implement and operate the technical side; formal CMMC assessment preparation and documentation is done with a specialist partner we coordinate with.
Evidence on Demand
Reports and exports from EDR, SIEM, patching, and scanning, organized so you can answer a questionnaire or auditor quickly.
DC-Region Presence
Silver Spring headquarters, onsite across Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia.
Questions We Hear From Gov & Defense Contractors
Do you work with government agencies directly?
No — we support government and defense contractors, not government offices. Our environments, tooling, and processes are built around the obligations contractors carry.
Can you get us CMMC certified?
Not on our own, and we won’t claim otherwise. CMA implements and operates the technical controls — EDR, ITDR, SIEM, MFA, patching, vulnerability management, encryption — and provides the evidence from those systems. Formal gap assessments, System Security Plans, POA&Ms, and assessment preparation are handled by a compliance specialist, and we work alongside them so the technical side is ready.
What security tools do you deploy?
Endpoint detection and response on every workstation and server, identity threat detection for Microsoft 365 and Entra accounts, a SIEM for centralized logging and alerting, scheduled vulnerability scanning, MFA and conditional access, and email security. All of it is monitored and maintained by CMA, not just installed.
What does this cost?
Security operations for contractors is an add-on to our managed IT plans, priced per user. See the Pricing page for how add-ons work, and book a consultation for a scoped quote.
Have Security Requirements in a Contract?
Book a consultation and we’ll walk through what your contract or prime actually requires, which controls CMA can implement and run, and where a compliance partner fits in.