IT & security for contractors serving Fort Hood
CMMC clauses are landing in new DoD contracts, primes are checking SPRS before they subcontract, and the nearest compliance help has always been an Austin day-rate away. IronPoint brings CMMC-aware readiness support to Killeen — honest gap assessments, a defensible score, and the day-to-day IT that keeps you eligible.
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The rules changed in November 2025 — and your next contract will prove it
Contractors and vendors serving Fort Hood are facing a compliance wall that arrived faster than the help did: cybersecurity requirements written into the contracts themselves, verified by primes before you ever see an award.
No SPRS score, no bid
CMMC clauses have been appearing in new DoD contracts since November 2025, with a phased rollout to full enforcement by 2028 — and primes must verify their subcontractors' status in SPRS before award. If your score isn't posted, you're not on the team, no matter how good your past performance is.
110 controls nobody on staff owns
NIST 800-171 covers access control, incident response, audit logging, configuration management, and a hundred more requirements — each one needing implementation, documentation, and upkeep. For a shop whose business is construction, logistics, or services, that's a full-time security job that doesn't exist on the org chart.
A guessed self-assessment is a legal liability
The score you post in SPRS carries an affirmation from a senior company official, and False Claims Act liability attaches to inflated self-assessments. A number someone estimated to keep a contract moving isn't a shortcut — it's your company's name on a federal representation you can't back up.
Thousands of contractors, almost no local help
Fort Hood is one of the largest Army posts in the country, supported by thousands of contractors and vendors across Central Texas — and nearly all of the compliance consulting lives in Austin or Dallas. Local shops end up choosing between expensive out-of-town consultants and hoping the requirement goes away. It won't.
Readiness support built for shops that aren't IT companies
Gap assessment, SPRS score & POA&M
We assess your environment against NIST 800-171, calculate an honest SPRS score you can affirm with a straight face, and build the plan of action and milestones to close the gaps — flat-quoted, in plain English.
Security that maps to the controls
Multi-factor authentication, 24/7 threat detection and response backed by the Huntress SOC, and audit logging — the safeguards that satisfy control families and cyber-insurance carriers at the same time.
Managed IT that keeps you compliant
Controls aren't a one-time project. Patching, access reviews, and documentation maintained month after month at a flat per-user rate — so your posture at renewal matches what you affirmed.
Backups that pass scrutiny
Automated, encrypted, restore-tested backups that satisfy the recovery expectations in your contracts and the conditions in your cyber-insurance policy — with test results you can show, not just a checkbox.
Microsoft 365, configured toward compliance
MFA everywhere, controlled access, retention, and audit logging configured toward compliance baselines — plus a straight answer on what your data types actually require before you buy anything.
CMMC Levels 1 and 2, the SPRS reality, and why now beats renewal time
CMMC in plain English: Level 1 applies when you handle Federal Contract Information — the routine, non-public information in almost any government contract — and requires 15 basic safeguards with an annual self-assessment affirmed by a company executive. Level 2 applies when you handle Controlled Unclassified Information and requires all 110 NIST 800-171 controls; some Level 2 contracts allow self-assessment, but most require an independent third-party assessment. IronPoint is not a C3PAO and doesn't certify anyone — by design, the assessor and the team that builds your program can't be the same people. We're the readiness side: the work that determines whether an assessment goes well.
The SPRS reality: your self-assessment produces a score that starts at 110 and drops for every unmet control, and it's posted to the government's Supplier Performance Risk System with a senior official's affirmation attached. Primes check that score before they put you on a team, and the government can check it against your actual environment. That's why the honest number matters more than the high number — a real 70 with a credible plan to close the gaps is a business asset; a fictional 110 is a federal false-statement problem waiting for a breach to expose it.
The phased rollout to 2028 means the clauses arrive contract by contract, at renewal and rebid — which makes right now the cheap time to act. Closing 800-171 gaps takes months, not weeks: some controls need budget, some need new habits, and all of them need documentation. Start readiness while there's no deadline and it's a managed project on your schedule. Wait until a prime asks for your score at renewal, and it's a scramble — or a lost bid.
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Frequently asked questions
Are you a C3PAO? Can you get us CMMC certified?
No — and be wary of anyone who says they can do both. C3PAOs are the independent assessors for Level 2 certification, and independence is the point: the firm that assesses you can't also be the firm that built your program. IronPoint does the readiness work — gap assessment, remediation, documentation, an honest SPRS score, and a POA&M for what's left — so that when your self-assessment or third-party assessment happens, you pass on the merits.
We're a small vendor, not a defense firm. Does CMMC really apply to us?
If your contract involves Federal Contract Information — and almost any government contract does — Level 1 applies: 15 basic safeguards and an annual self-assessment. If you handle Controlled Unclassified Information, Level 2 and its 110 controls apply. Requirements also flow down from primes to subcontractors, so even if the government never emails you directly, the prime who does will ask. We'll tell you honestly which level your work triggers — for a lot of on-post vendors, the answer is Level 1 basics you may already be halfway to meeting.
What does CMMC readiness cost?
The comprehensive Security & AI Audit is $750, credited toward onboarding if you move forward — that's where we establish your real gaps and your real score. Ongoing managed IT runs a flat $95 to $200 per user per month depending on the support and security your contracts demand, and remediation work is flat-quoted in writing after the assessment. No open-ended hourly meter, and if a control is already covered, we'll say so instead of billing you to rebuild it.
Our SPRS score is already posted. Are we done?
Not quite. First, the score has to reflect reality — if it was estimated optimistically, that's False Claims Act exposure sitting in a federal database with an executive's affirmation on it. Second, POA&M items come with deadlines, not indefinite grace. And third, compliance decays: unpatched systems, stale accounts, and undocumented changes quietly lower the real number while the posted one stays put. Maintaining the controls is exactly what a managed IT relationship is for.
Know your real SPRS score before a prime asks for it
Start with a free, no-obligation assessment — or just call. You'll talk to the person who does the work.