We are on a roll and very proud to announce the MVP Enclave and 800-171 Compliance Program has done it again! Eight months ago, we embarked on another journey to help an amazing small business fulfill their goal of going to the Joint Surveillance Voluntary Assessment for CMMC.

Peerless Electronics Inc. should be the CMMC role model to small businesses. Like many small businesses, they came in early 2024 seeking advice about where to start and what approach to take for their 800-171 compliance journey. Unlike many small businesses, they recognized the importance of the program, respected the end goal, and worked extremely hard to play an active role every single day in this very difficult transformation. They had full support at every level of the organization.

I feel so lucky to have had this mutual learning experience with the staff of Peerless Electronics Inc. The MVP Enclave and 800-171 Compliance Program is even better than before because of customers like them. We are thankful to have had a very professional and detailed assessment by Fernando Machado, CISSP, CISM, CCA, CCP (AKA “Eagle Eye”) of Cybersec Investments and the DIBCAC. There were five assessors in total. It was also amazing to experience being assessed by one hearing impaired assessor and his translators – that process was seamless and should give inspiration to anyone with hearing impairments.

Our goal from the beginning was to have this enclave scrutinized by as many DIBCAC and C3PAO assessors as possible. This is what we have spent the past two years doing.

1. I would like to thank ComplianceForge for their thorough documentation package which gives companies the tools they need to document their solution, program, and operations.

I would like to thank FutureFeed, Mark Berman, James Goepel, and Chase Berman for their awesome product which is invaluable to manage this program.

**Peerless Electronics will not be officially recognized until DIBCAC outbrief, which can take a few weeks. They have received their C3PAO outbrief.