DEFENSE CONTRACTING
The Defense Contractor IT Team Your Operation Deserves
Your compliance boundary is a full time job. The rest of your technology should not be. centrexIT runs the systems outside your CMMC assessment boundary so your team can put its attention where contracts are won and kept.
A clear line, stated up front
Most providers are vague about where they stand on CUI. We are not.
centrexIT does not access, store, process, or transmit classified information or Controlled Unclassified Information. We do not stand up CUI enclaves and we do not support them. Those responsibilities live inside your compliance boundary.
What we do is everything on the other side of that line. Your corporate network, your front office, the systems that sit outside scope, your helpdesk, your hardware, your infrastructure projects, your day to day. The parts of the business that still have to run while your compliance work is happening.
That boundary is not a limitation we are apologizing for. It is what lets us give you a straight answer when your assessor asks who touches what.
How We Help Defense Contractors
IT services for the part of your business that sits outside scope.
Stays with you and your compliance support
- Anything inside your CMMC assessment boundary
- Your CUI enclave, if you have one
- Systems that store, process, or transmit CUI
- Security monitoring and administration of in scope assets
- Your System Security Plan, your affirmation, your SPRS submission
Comes to centrexIT
- Corporate IT outside the assessment boundary
- Helpdesk and end user support for out of scope users
- Network, server, and infrastructure work outside scope
- Hardware procurement and lifecycle
- Cloud and collaboration for the out of scope side of the business
- Infrastructure projects, moves, and modernization
- Vendor management for everything we run
ENCLAVES
If you need an enclave and do not have one
You do not have to source it yourself. When you engage centrexIT to run the environment outside your boundary, we procure the required licensing on your behalf and bring in a partner qualified to stand the enclave up. They build it. Once your CUI is in it, a provider built for that work supports it, and we will help you evaluate options for that role. centrexIT stays outside the boundary throughout.
Three roles, three parties. We procure and coordinate. Our partner builds. Someone else supports it once CUI is in it.
Licensing procurement and the partner introduction come with an engagement to run the environment outside your boundary. Neither is sold on its own.
Where you are right now
You handle FCI, not CUI
Level 1 self assessment, fifteen requirements. We can run your entire IT operation. This is the most straightforward relationship we have in the defense space and it is the one most providers overlook.
You have CUI and it is enclaved
Your enclave is contained and the rest of your business is not. We take the rest. Most contractors in this position are paying enclave grade attention to an entire estate that does not need it.
You have CUI and it is everywhere
We are not your managed services provider today, and we will tell you that on the first call rather than the third. What we can do is get an enclave stood up through our partner and take the rest of your estate once it is contained.
Why Defense Contractors Choose centrexIT
The Pause Changed How You Are Verified, Not What You Owe
On July 13, 2026, Phase 2 and all later CMMC phases were suspended. What was suspended is third-party C3PAO certification as a condition of award. What still binds you did not change: Phase 1 self-assessments, DFARS 252.204-7012, NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2, your SPRS score, the annual affirmation, and flow-down to your subcontractors.
With no third-party assessor in the path, your own signature on that affirmation carries the legal weight it always did.
Read the full picture on our CMMC page →guardIT
Security for the systems outside your assessment boundary. Endpoint protection, identity, email security, and backup for the side of the business that is not in scope.
manageIT
The daily operation of everything outside the boundary. Patching, helpdesk, asset lifecycle, and the vendor management that comes with it.
Much of the defense industrial base is manufacturing, and the two problems overlap on the plant floor. If your CUI questions are really OT and IT convergence questions, start with our manufacturing page.
Check Your Own Position
CMMC Pause Reality Check
Nine questions on what the suspension changed for your contracts, and what is still in force.
Coming SoonCUI Scope Mapper
Map where Controlled Unclassified Information actually lands across your systems, and what that puts in scope.
Coming SoonYou Call. We Answer. It Works.
No pressure, no obligation. Just a conversation about where your technology stands and where you want it to go. Your free assessment takes two minutes.