80,000 defense contractors have to hit CMMC Level 2 by November 2026. Only 8% are certified today. CITADEL is the signed compliance layer that makes certification happen live, automatically, with records that hold up in court.
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 receipt that holds up in court? And what if CMMC auditors could check the whole 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 to 44,000 companies could lose their DoD contracts in less than 18 months.
Hiring compliance staff and consultants runs $160,000 to $280,000 a year. CITADEL signs and verifies the same record for a fraction of a cent. That is over 1,000 times cheaper than doing it by hand.
From SBOM generation to a court-ready audit trail, every step produces a receipt that cannot be changed and that anyone can check.
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 live compliance dashboard. Sub-tier failures show up instantly, so nobody has to run a spreadsheet audit.
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-768You get live attestation across all 14 CMMC Level 2 practice domains. Evidence gets generated automatically, so nobody has to collect it by hand or run spreadsheet checklists.
14 Practice DomainsCITADEL constantly checks the integrity of your supply chain. Every supplier relationship gets watched in real time, and anything unusual triggers an instant, signed record.
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 BatchingHiring compliance staff runs $160,000 to $280,000 a year. CITADEL delivers attestations you can verify at $0.00020 each. That is over 1,000 times cheaper than doing it by hand.
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 to $10 | ~$0.10 to $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 to $200M revenue companies with a DoD contract portfolio. They cannot afford to fail certification, and they cannot afford $280K a year in compliance staff either.
Large primes are on the hook for sub-tier CMMC compliance flow-down, which is nearly impossible to monitor by hand. CITADEL turns it into a live dashboard.
Certified Third-Party Assessors need tools that can handle the wave of CMMC assessment requests coming before the November 2026 deadline. CITADEL builds the evidence package automatically.
Bring your contractor list. We will show you a real-time, cryptographically verified CMMC compliance dashboard before the November deadline.