Metal Fabrication Companies:
Your Fabrication Drawings Are Unprotected CUI.
You cut, bend, and weld the steel that goes into military vehicles and naval vessels.
Your shop produces armor plating, structural components, and weapon system housings for the Department of Defense.
Your fabrication drawings, your welding procedure specifications, your material test reports. All of it is Controlled Unclassified Information.
And right now, most of it is sitting on shop floor computers that anyone can walk up to and access.
The Threat Metal Fabrication Shops
Are Not Taking Seriously
Metal fabrication is a critical tier of the defense supply chain. From armor plating to structural components for military vehicles and naval vessels, fabricated metal parts keep our warfighters protected.
Billions of dollars in DoD procurement flow through shops that cut, weld, form, and finish metal components every year. If your shop holds a defense subcontract, you are almost certainly handling CUI.
Every one of those companies must comply with CMMC Level 2. That means full protection across all 110 NIST 800-171 controls.
Not a partial plan. Not a binder on a shelf. Verified implementation.
Right now, shop floor computers across the industry have open access to fabrication drawings and welding procedure specifications. Material certifications get emailed to primes without encryption. Heat treatment records and dimensional inspection data live on unprotected file shares with no audit trail for who accessed what.
When CMMC enforcement ramps up, fabrication shops that have not locked down their CUI will be cut out of the defense supply chain entirely.
12-18 Months
Typical timeline to achieve CMMC Level 2 for metal fabrication shops with shop floor systems, welding controllers, and mixed IT/OT environments.
Shop Floor Exposure
Drawings open on shared workstations. Welding procedure specs emailed in plain text. Material certs stored on drives anyone can browse.
No Access Controls
No audit trail for who viewed fabrication drawings, coating specifications, or heat treatment records. Every file is potential CUI exposure.
We Get Metal Fabrication Shops CMMC-Ready.
From the Shop Floor to the Front Office.
CMMC Ready Now, powered by Capital Cyber, is the compliance partner built for metal fabrication companies that need to protect drawings, weld procedures, and material certifications without shutting down production.
CMMC Gap Assessment
We audit your shop floor workstations, fabrication drawing storage, welding procedure databases, and network infrastructure against all 110 NIST 800-171 controls. You get a clear, prioritized roadmap.
Remediation & Implementation
From encrypting fabrication drawings to locking down material test report repositories, we do the hands-on engineering work. Not slide decks. Real technical fixes that work in a production shop environment.
System Security Plan (SSP)
Full SSP development covering your CAD/CAM systems, CNC controllers, shop floor networks, and administrative systems. Custom documentation that C3PAO assessors actually accept.
Plan of Action & Milestones
Strategic POA&M that addresses the unique gaps in metal fabrication environments, from welding controller networks to material certification databases and coating spec repositories.
Continuous Monitoring
Around-the-clock monitoring across shop floor, engineering, and administrative networks. Compliance is not a one-time event. We keep you certified year after year.
Assessment Prep & Mock Audits
Full dress rehearsal before your C3PAO assessment. We simulate the real audit so your quality team, IT staff, and shop managers know exactly what to expect on game day.
Built for Every Corner of Metal Fabrication
Whether you are welding armor plating or laser-cutting brackets for avionics enclosures, your CUI requires the same level of protection. We understand the tools, the workflows, and the data that define your trade.
Structural Steel Fabrication
Sheet Metal Work
Welding & Joining
Laser Cutting
Waterjet Cutting
Plasma Cutting
Bending & Forming
Surface Treatment & Coating
Trusted by Defense Fabrication Shops Nationwide
Real results from real metal fabrication companies. Here is what our clients say.
“We had fabrication drawings sitting on a shared computer at the shop floor that anyone could pull up. Welding procedure specs were stored in a folder with no password protection. Capital Cyber came in, identified every gap, and helped us implement real access controls and encryption across our entire operation. We passed our C3PAO assessment on the first attempt.”
Operations Manager
Structural Fabricator, Virginia
“Our material test reports and heat treatment records were being emailed to primes in plain text. We had no idea that was a compliance violation. The CMMC Ready Now team understood how a welding shop actually operates and built a security plan that did not disrupt our production schedule. That was the difference for us.”
Owner
Defense Welding Shop, Ohio
“Rick and his team actually understand metal fabrication. They walked our shop floor, saw how our operators access drawings at cutting stations and bending machines, and built a compliance architecture that fits how we work. No generic checklists. No ivory tower consultants. They got their hands dirty and we got certified.”
Quality Manager
Sheet Metal Fabricator, Maryland
Your Path to CMMC Certification
Simple. Structured. Built for metal fabrication shops.
Book a Call with Rick
Free, no-obligation consultation. We will assess where your metal fabrication operation stands and whether CMMC Ready Now is the right fit for your shop.
Comprehensive Gap Assessment
Our team performs a full analysis of your shop floor workstations, fabrication drawing storage, welding procedure databases, material certification systems, and administrative networks against all 110 NIST 800-171 controls.
Remediation & Implementation
We work alongside your quality, IT, and shop floor teams to close every gap. Encrypted drawing libraries, access-controlled material cert repositories, segmented shop networks, hardened endpoints, and complete documentation.
Assessment Prep & Certification
Mock audits, SSP review, evidence collection across your entire fabrication operation. When you walk into your C3PAO assessment, you are ready.
Let me be direct with you.
Your shop cuts, welds, and forms the metal that goes into armored vehicles, naval ships, aircraft structures, and weapon system enclosures.
Those fabrication drawings are not just shop paperwork. They are classified as Controlled Unclassified Information by the Department of Defense.
Your welding procedure specifications. Your material test reports. Your heat treatment records. Your dimensional inspection data. Your coating specifications.
All of it is CUI. And CMMC does not care that you have been fabricating for the DoD for 20 years.
It cares whether your fabrication drawings are encrypted at rest and in transit. Whether your material cert database has role-based access controls. Whether your shop floor workstations live on segmented, monitored networks.
Not next quarter. Not next year. Right now.
The metal fabrication shops that move first will lock in assessor slots.
They will win the next round of contracts.
They will be the ones still in the supply chain when the dust settles.
Will your shop be one of them?
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CMMC Ready Now is proudly powered by Capital Cyber. A cybersecurity firm helping defense contractors navigate NIST 800-171 compliance and prepare for CMMC certification.