{"id":180063,"date":"2026-01-20T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/cybersecurity-certification-level-2-announced-by-spectra-defense-technologies\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:30:09","slug":"cybersecurity-certification-level-2-announced-by-spectra-defense-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/cybersecurity-certification-level-2-announced-by-spectra-defense-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity certification level 2 announced by Spectra Defense Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryembedded.com\/cyber\/cybersecurity\/cybersecurity-certification-level-2-announced-by-spectra-defense-technologies\">Cybersecurity certification level 2 announced by Spectra Defense Technologies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryembedded.com\/cyber\/cybersecurity\/cybersecurity-certification-level-2-announced-by-spectra-defense-technologies\">https:\/\/militaryembedded.com\/cyber\/cybersecurity\/cybersecurity-certification-level-2-announced-by-spectra-defense-technologies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-20 14:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"militaryembedded.com\">militaryembedded.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>            News<\/p>\n<p>                January 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                        Lisa Daigle<br \/>\n                        Assistant Managing Editor<br \/>\n                                                    Military Embedded Systems<\/p>\n<p>                    Graphic courtesy Spectra<\/p>\n<p>                            ALPHARETTA, Ga. Mission systems provider Spectra Defense Technologies\u00a0announced that it recently achieved Final Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 (C3PAO) for all locations after it underwent an independent assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The C3PAO, according to the company announcement, validates its\u00a0compliance with U.S. Department of War (DoD) cybersecurity requirements in the area of\u00a0handling controlled unclassified information (CUI).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The federal government&#8217;s\u00a0Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) cybersecurity mandate (DFARS 252.204-7012) and related clauses require contractors seeking to handle CUI to use stringent cybersecurity measures aligned with NIST SP 800-171. Compliance with CMMC will become a contractual requirement under DFARS as of\u00a0November 10, 2026, which means that uncertified contractors will be ineligible for DoW contracts involving CUI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ray Munoz, chief executive officer of Spectra Defense Technologies, said of the C3PAO: \u201cCMMC certification reinforces our position as a trusted, compliant partner within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), This certification independently validates our cybersecurity controls and reinforces our readiness to protect sensitive government information across the defense programs we support.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity certification level 2 announced by Spectra Defense Technologies https:\/\/militaryembedded.com\/cyber\/cybersecurity\/cybersecurity-certification-level-2-announced-by-spectra-defense-technologies Publish Date: 2026-01-20 14:52:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/data.militaryembedded.com\/uploads\/resize\/1256\/756\/external\/data.militaryembedded.com\/uploads\/articles\/primary_images\/1768938712.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-180063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180065,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180063\/revisions\/180065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}