CMMC Compliance Consultant in Pittsburgh

If a prime contractor just forwarded you a DFARS clause and asked when you'll hit Level 2, or your last self-assessment score in SPRS is negative and you're staring down a re-compete, you don't need another generic cybersecurity pitch. You need a CMMC compliance consultant in Pittsburgh who understands NIST SP 800-171, the CMMC 2.0 final rule, and how the controls actually land inside a working shop floor, engineering team, or professional services firm in Western PA.

PGH Networks helps Department of Defense contractors and their suppliers across the Pittsburgh metro — from the Strip District and Cranberry Township out through Washington, Beaver, Butler, and Westmoreland counties — get honest about scope, close real gaps, and produce the documentation an assessor will actually accept. We are a managed services provider first, which means when the assessment is over, the controls keep running.

A CMMC certificate is not a document you buy; it is the evidence that your day-to-day operations already match what your System Security Plan claims.

Who this is for: DoD contractors and suppliers across Western PA

This page is written for the people who typically call us: a controller or COO at a 20–300 person manufacturer machining parts for a Tier 1 defense prime, an IT director at an engineering firm handling controlled technical data, or an owner who just discovered that "FCI" and "CUI" showed up in a subcontract and nobody internally can define either one. If any of these describe you, the CMMC clock is already running:

You handle Controlled Unclassified Information — drawings, specs, ITAR-adjacent technical data, or export-controlled material — on behalf of a DoD prime. You have DFARS 252.204-7012 in an existing contract and a 7019/7020/7021 flow-down coming. Your SPRS score is stale, guessed at, or was submitted before anyone read the 110 controls carefully. You've been told a Level 2 third-party assessment (C3PAO) is required to keep the work, and you have somewhere between 6 and 18 months to be ready.

We also work with firms that only handle Federal Contract Information and need to demonstrate Level 1 self-assessment rigor without over-engineering the environment.

What a CMMC engagement with PGH Networks includes

A real engagement is sequential, not a checklist dumped in a shared drive. We start with scoping and CUI boundary definition, because the single biggest cost driver in CMMC is how much of your environment is in-scope. Enclave strategies, GCC High decisions, and segmentation of ERP, CAD, and email are decided here — before anyone spends money on tooling.

Next is a NIST 800-171 gap assessment against all 110 controls and the 320 assessment objectives in NIST 800-171A. You get a defensible SPRS score, an inventory of what's actually in place, and a prioritized remediation roadmap tied to cost and time. From there we author the System Security Plan (SSP) and Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) — not templates with your logo pasted on, but plans that describe your environment truthfully enough to survive an assessor's interview.

TL;DR: Scoping determines cost, the SSP determines credibility, and sustained operations determine whether your certification survives the three-year cycle.

Then comes managed remediation: MFA everywhere CUI touches, FIPS-validated encryption, audit logging with retention, incident response tabletop exercises, security awareness training, vulnerability management, and the identity and access reviews that most shops skip. Because PGH Networks operates the environment day to day via managed IT, remediation doesn't stall waiting on a separate MSP to schedule work. Finally, we run pre-assessment readiness reviews and coordinate directly with your chosen C3PAO so nothing about the audit is a surprise.

Why work with a Pittsburgh CMMC compliance consultant who runs your IT too

Plenty of firms will sell you a gap assessment, hand over a PDF, and disappear. That model routinely produces companies with a beautiful SSP and an environment that doesn't match it — the fastest way to fail a Level 2 assessment. Our angle is different in three ways worth naming.

First, we're local and on-site when it matters. CUI boundary decisions get made faster when a consultant can walk your production floor in Neville Island or your engineering bay in Monroeville rather than schedule another video call. Second, we own the remediation, not just the report. The same team that identifies a logging gap configures the SIEM, tunes the alerts, and answers the assessor's questions about it a year later. Third, and increasingly relevant: we run an AI-enablement practice alongside compliance work. When your team wants to use Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, or a vertical AI tool on data that may include CUI, we've already thought about the data-handling policy, the tenant configuration, and the acceptable-use policy and training controls that keep that use inside the boundary.

We stay deliberately focused on the Pittsburgh metro and a 75-mile radius of 15220. That geography is a feature, not a limit — it's how we keep response times short and how we've built working familiarity with the manufacturers, engineering firms, and specialty suppliers that make up this region's defense industrial base.

Next step: a scoped CMMC readiness call

A useful first conversation takes about 30 minutes. We ask what contracts are driving the requirement, what your current SPRS submission looks like, where CUI lives today, and what your target assessment window is. You leave the call with a clear sense of scope, likely level (1 vs. 2), and a rough order of magnitude on both timeline and budget — before any engagement letter.

If DFARS language is already in a contract you're bidding or renewing, don't wait for the flow-down clock to compress your options. Call 724.888.7007 or reach out through the contact form and ask for a CMMC readiness call with the compliance team.