What is your DoD contract portfolio worth?
Because CMMC non-conformity puts the entire portfolio at risk.
and
The hidden cost is not the compliance program. It is the unmanaged risk that replaces it.
Typical breach-cost benchmark in industrial and defense-adjacent sectors. One serious cybersecurity event can exceed the annual cost of a governed software supply chain program by orders of magnitude.
Of breaches now begin with software vulnerabilities. That makes vulnerability governance a financial control issue, not just an engineering task.
Of large organizations cite supply chain complexity as the biggest barrier to cyber resilience. In aerospace and defense, that translates into supplier-assurance friction, contract review delays, and program risk.
Reduction in audit preparation time when SBOM, vulnerability, license, remediation, and approval evidence are maintained continuously. Source: X-DLM™ customer benchmarks.
Convert an unquantified compliance liability into a defined, budgetable program.
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Put a number on the risk
Your active DoD contracts have a dollar value. CMMC non-conformity puts that value at risk, since eligibility depends on the required status, assessment result, contract and permitted remediation rules. X-DLM™ starts at ~$5K/year — the business case writes itself when you compare program cost to contract value.
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Reduce the hidden cost of manual evidence
DO-178C certification delays caused by manually reconstructed evidence cost $200K–$1M+ per engagement in engineering and legal time. Polarion LiveDocs and workflow history eliminate the reconstruction sprint.
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Protect deal value in procurement and M&A
Defense sector M&A diligence and enterprise procurement increasingly require SBOM provision, CMMC posture documentation, and ITAR compliance evidence. Black Duck and X-DLM™ make that evidence package available on demand.
See how Siemens Polarion and Black Duck become one governed software risk workflow.
X-DLM™ turns Black Duck software supply chain intelligence into Siemens Polarion work items, requirements links, approvals, escalation paths, and continuously maintained evidence.
Brand authority buyers recognize
Backed by Siemens lifecycle governance and Black Duck AppSec intelligence.
Siemens Polarion ALM
Polarion provides the lifecycle system of record for requirements, tests, approvals, traceability, workflow automation, audit evidence, and regulated software delivery.
Black Duck Software Composition Analysis
Black Duck identifies open source and third-party components across source, binaries, containers, firmware, snippets, AI-generated code, and C/C++ environments without package managers.
Aerospace and defense companies answer to more than one framework.
CMMC 2.0 is the floor, not the ceiling. DO-178C, NIST SSDF, ITAR/EAR, and IEC 62443 run simultaneously — each with its own evidence requirements, its own audit path, and its own consequence for non-conformity.
View CMMC, DO-178C & All Regulations →Reduce the liability. Protect the portfolio.
Budget X-DLM™ before the audit arrives.
See how X-DLM™ converts CMMC non-conformity risk, DO-178C delay exposure, and ITAR liability into a defined, budgetable compliance program — starting at approximately $5K/year.