Disciplined IT operations for federal contractors and government services firms. Headquartered in the Washington, DC region, serving clients across the East Coast. Cyber insurance readiness, FAR 52.204-21 basic safeguarding, and the documentation discipline your federal customers and prime partners expect.
On July 13, 2026, the Department of War (DoW) suspended CMMC Phase II third-party certification requirements and announced a 60-day comprehensive review of the program. All Phase I self-assessment requirements remain in effect, and DFARS 252.204-7012 obligations are unchanged.
What this means for you: the requirement to protect Controlled Unclassified Information hasn't gone away. Every defense contractor and subcontractor handling CUI is still obligated to implement NIST SP 800-171 controls and conduct self-assessments. With Phase II suspended, many covered contractors will continue to rely on Level 2 self-assessments, and select government-led assessments may still occur. That places the burden directly on the contractor to scope the environment correctly, implement the controls, maintain current evidence, and support every representation entered into SPRS. A self-assessment that does not match your actual environment is a real liability; the government has pursued False Claims Act cases over inaccurate cybersecurity attestations. The certification paperwork is on hold. The security work is not.
Sentry manages the technical controls and operational evidence within our scope as part of our Audit-Ready managed services engagement, and coordinates with your compliance advisors on requirements outside it. You remain responsible for your own assessment and attestation; our role is to keep the IT environment underneath them disciplined, documented, and ready. Whether the formal certification program returns in a modified form or not, the underlying security obligations remain, and your environment needs to be ready.
(If you subcontract to a prime, note that it may still require CMMC certification under its own flow-down terms, independent of this pause.)
Insurers are tightening underwriting requirements every year. We maintain the controls, documentation, and evidence your carrier expects to see at renewal.
Federal services contracts require basic cyber hygiene under FAR 52.204-21. We help implement and document the technical safeguards within our scope so your team can evaluate and support its own compliance determination.
Federal customers and prime partners ask for written policies, system inventories, and evidence of consistent operations. We build and maintain the trail.
Outages and security incidents become past performance issues at recompete. Sentry monitors, patches, and documents proactively so problems get caught early.
Federal customer security questionnaires and prime partner due diligence forms take days to complete. We maintain the answers and evidence you need on file.
New contract awards, set-aside designations, and team expansion stretch infrastructure that worked at twelve people. We scale your environment with disciplined operations and no surprise costs.
Sentry provides the operational IT layer for federal services firms in the DMV: management consultancies, government affairs firms, federal training providers, and small primes on services contracts.
We maintain the documented, hardened environment your federal customers, prime partners, and cyber insurance carrier expect to see. We coordinate with your compliance consultants and outside specialists when scope reaches beyond the operational IT layer.
PreVeil provides end-to-end encrypted email and file sharing for CUI. As a PreVeil partner, Sentry can set it up alongside your Microsoft 365 environment; the CUI stays inside PreVeil's encrypted boundary, not in systems Sentry operates.
Every plan includes the core security and support stack. Licensing, onsite, after-hours, and projects are scoped separately.
View Service TiersSentry helps implement and document the technical safeguards within our managed scope (access control, patching, monitoring, media protection). The contractor remains responsible for evaluating and affirming its overall compliance with FAR 52.204-21.
Yes. Sentry Consulting Group is veteran-owned and holds GSA MAS Schedule 47QTCA24D00DE, CAGE Code 9GL11, and an active SAM.gov registration, the same procurement environment its clients operate in.
Sentry does not process, store, or transmit CUI itself. When CUI handling is required, we connect you with a dedicated encrypted enclave. Our partner for this is PreVeil, whose platform stores and protects the CUI inside its own boundary. Sentry manages and documents everything around it, endpoints, identity, access control, backup, and scope separation, so the rest of your environment stays disciplined and audit-ready.
We will review your current environment, identify the gaps within our scope, map important dependencies, and explain the work needed to bring your IT operations up to a disciplined, documented standard. If something is outside our scope, we will say so directly.
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