80,000 defense contractors must achieve CMMC Level 2 by November 2026. Only 8% are certified today. CITADEL is the cryptographic compliance layer that makes certification real-time, automated, and court-admissible.
The CMMC enforcement clock is running. Most of the defense industrial base is unprepared.
"What if every bolt on an F-35 and every defense contractor's compliance status had a quantum-safe, court-admissible receipt — and CMMC auditors could verify the entire chain in 8.6 milliseconds?"
Every company in the defense industrial base supplying Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) must achieve CMMC Level 2 by November 2026 or lose DoD contract eligibility.
Only 8% of the required contractor base holds a current CMMC certification. That means 33,000–44,000 companies face losing DoD contracts in fewer than 18 months.
Traditional compliance FTE and consultant costs run $160,000–$280,000 per year. CITADEL cryptographically attests the same record for a fraction of a cent — 1,000× cheaper than manual compliance.
From SBOM generation to court-admissible audit trail — every step produces an immutable, verifiable receipt.
Every software component, hardware part, and supplier attestation is signed with ML-DSA-65 + ML-KEM-768 at ingestion.
Receipts roll up to the prime's real-time compliance dashboard. Sub-tier failures surface instantly — no spreadsheet audits.
Auditors verify cryptographic proofs in 8.6 ms. C3PAO integration generates the certification package automatically.
Hourly Merkle batch anchors to Base L2 make every attestation tamper-evident, immutable, and court-admissible forever.
CITADEL maps directly to every CMMC Level 2 practice domain, with cryptographic proof of compliance at each step.
Every hardware and software component receives an ML-DSA-65 + ML-KEM-768 signed receipt at ingestion. Supply chain provenance is cryptographically locked from day one.
ML-DSA-65 · ML-KEM-768Real-time attestation across all 14 CMMC Level 2 practice domains. Evidence is generated automatically — no manual evidence collection, no spreadsheet checklists.
14 Practice DomainsContinuous cryptographic verification of supply chain integrity. Every supplier relationship is monitored in real time — anomalies trigger instant cryptographic evidence capture.
Continuous MonitoringCNSA 2.0 ready and future-proofed against "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks. FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 signatures cannot be broken by current or near-term quantum computers.
CNSA 2.0 · FIPS 204Hourly Merkle batch anchors to Base L2 create an immutable audit trail. Every attestation is timestamped on-chain and cannot be retroactively altered or deleted.
Base L2 · Hourly BatchingTraditional compliance FTE runs $160,000–$280,000 annually. CITADEL delivers cryptographically verifiable attestations at $0.00020 each — over 1,000× cheaper than manual processes.
1,000× Cost ReductionCITADEL is designed to meet the November 2026 CMMC deadline without disrupting existing operations.
CITADEL integrated into your environment. SBOM signing active. First signed receipts issued.
All 14 CMMC Level 2 practice domains covered. Real-time compliance dashboard operational across the supply chain.
C3PAO audit readiness package automatically generated. Every control mapped to a cryptographic attestation receipt.
Deadline met. Certification complete. DoD contract eligibility secured. Continuous compliance monitoring active.
Spreadsheets and first-generation CMMC tools were not built for cryptographic verification or post-quantum threats.
| Capability | Spreadsheets + Consultants | Existing CMMC Tools | CITADEL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time attestation | Manual, quarterly | Periodic scans | Continuous · 8.6 ms |
| Post-quantum signatures | None | None | ML-DSA-65 FIPS 204 |
| Court-admissible receipts | PDFs, easily altered | Centralized logs | Immutable · Base L2 |
| C3PAO integration | Manual package | Partial | Automated generation |
| Cost per attestation | ~$2–$10 | ~$0.10–$1.00 | $0.00020 |
| CNSA 2.0 ready | No | No | Yes |
Whether you are a contractor facing the deadline, a prime managing sub-tier compliance, or an assessor, CITADEL was built for you.
$50M–$200M revenue companies with a DoD contract portfolio that cannot afford to fail certification — and cannot afford $280K/yr in compliance FTE.
Large primes who are responsible for sub-tier CMMC compliance flow-down face an impossible monitoring problem — CITADEL makes it a real-time dashboard.
Certified Third-Party Assessors need tooling that can process the wave of CMMC assessment requests coming before the November 2026 deadline — CITADEL generates the evidence package automatically.
Bring your contractor list. We will show you a real-time, cryptographically verified CMMC compliance dashboard before the November deadline.