Packaging & Crating Companies:
Your MIL-STD Specs and Shipping Data Are Unprotected CUI.
You package, crate, and prepare military hardware for shipment across the globe.
Your facility handles MIL-STD-2073 packaging specifications, preservation requirements, and shipping container designs for the Department of Defense.
Your kitting instructions, your serialization data, your weight and dimension records for classified items. All of it is Controlled Unclassified Information.
And right now, most of it is sitting on shop floor computers and shared drives that anyone in your building can access.
The Compliance Gap Packaging & Crating
Companies Cannot Afford to Ignore
Military packaging and crating is a specialized niche in the defense supply chain. MIL-STD-2073 governs how defense items must be packaged, and MIL-STD-129 dictates how they must be marked and labeled for shipment. Companies that package defense items handle CUI whether they realize it or not.
Packaging specifications, preservation requirements, handling instructions, and shipping container designs all contain information that adversaries could use to identify what is being shipped, where it is going, and how it must be stored. That makes every one of those documents Controlled Unclassified Information.
Every company that touches military packaging 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, packaging specs are being received via email without encryption across the industry. MIL-STD documents live on open file shares. Shipping labels reveal sensitive program names in plain text. Workers with direct access to CUI-marked items have never had a background check.
When CMMC enforcement ramps up, packaging and crating operations 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 packaging and crating operations with shop floor systems, label printers, and mixed IT/OT environments.
Open File Shares
MIL-STD-2073 documents stored on shared drives. Packaging specs emailed in plain text. Preservation requirements accessible to every employee on the network.
No Access Controls
No audit trail for who viewed kitting instructions, serialization data, or shipping container designs. Every file is potential CUI exposure.
We Get Packaging & Crating Operations CMMC-Ready.
From the Pack Floor to the Front Office.
CMMC Ready Now, powered by Capital Cyber, is the compliance partner built for packaging and crating companies that need to protect MIL-STD specs, shipping data, and handling instructions without disrupting production schedules.
CMMC Gap Assessment
We audit your pack floor workstations, MIL-STD document repositories, label printing systems, shipping databases, and network infrastructure against all 110 NIST 800-171 controls. You get a clear, prioritized roadmap.
Remediation & Implementation
From encrypting packaging specifications to locking down serialization data repositories, we do the hands-on engineering work. Not slide decks. Real technical fixes that work in a production packaging environment.
System Security Plan (SSP)
Full SSP development covering your packaging design systems, label generation software, shipping management platforms, and administrative systems. Custom documentation that C3PAO assessors actually accept.
Plan of Action & Milestones
Strategic POA&M that addresses the unique gaps in packaging and crating environments, from label printer networks to kitting instruction databases and preservation spec repositories.
Continuous Monitoring
Around-the-clock monitoring across pack 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 operations team, IT staff, and pack floor managers know exactly what to expect on game day.
Built for Every Corner of Military Packaging
Whether you are building custom crates for missile components or foam-in-place packaging for avionics, your CUI requires the same level of protection. We understand the specs, the workflows, and the data that define your trade.
Military Specification Packaging
Custom Crating
Preservation & Desiccant
Kitting & Assembly
Foam-in-Place Systems
Reusable Container Systems
Export Packaging
Hazmat Packaging
Trusted by Defense Packaging Operations Nationwide
Real results from real packaging and crating companies. Here is what our clients say.
“We had MIL-STD-2073 packaging specs and preservation requirements sitting on a shared network drive that every employee could access. Handling instructions for sensitive defense items were being emailed to subcontractors without any encryption. Capital Cyber came in, mapped every CUI touchpoint in our operation, and built a security architecture that actually works on a pack floor. We passed our C3PAO assessment on the first attempt.”
Operations Director
Military Packaging Operation, Virginia
“We build custom crates for defense hardware, and we never thought of ourselves as a cybersecurity target. But our shipping container designs, our weight and dimension records, our kitting instructions for classified programs. All of it was CUI we were not protecting. The CMMC Ready Now team understood how a crating shop actually runs and delivered a compliance plan that did not shut us down. That made all the difference.”
Owner
Custom Crating Company, Alabama
“Rick and his team actually walked our facility and watched how our team accesses packaging specs at workstations, prints shipping labels, and manages serialization data. They built a compliance architecture around our real workflows instead of handing us a generic checklist. Our kitting and assembly teams can still move fast, and we are fully compliant. That is exactly what we needed.”
Shipping Manager
Defense Kitting Operation, Maryland
Your Path to CMMC Certification
Simple. Structured. Built for packaging and crating operations.
Book a Call with Rick
Free, no-obligation consultation. We will assess where your packaging and crating operation stands and whether CMMC Ready Now is the right fit for your facility.
Comprehensive Gap Assessment
Our team performs a full analysis of your pack floor workstations, MIL-STD document storage, label printing systems, serialization databases, shipping management platforms, and administrative networks against all 110 NIST 800-171 controls.
Remediation & Implementation
We work alongside your operations, IT, and pack floor teams to close every gap. Encrypted spec libraries, access-controlled shipping databases, segmented pack floor networks, hardened endpoints, and complete documentation.
Assessment Prep & Certification
Mock audits, SSP review, evidence collection across your entire packaging operation. When you walk into your C3PAO assessment, you are ready.
Let me be direct with you.
Your operation packages, crates, and prepares the defense hardware that gets shipped to military bases, forward operating locations, and allied nations around the world.
Those MIL-STD packaging specifications are not just shop paperwork. They are classified as Controlled Unclassified Information by the Department of Defense.
Your preservation requirements. Your handling instructions. Your shipping container designs. Your kitting instructions. Your serialization data. Your weight and dimension records for classified items.
All of it is CUI. And CMMC does not care that you have been packaging for the DoD for 20 years.
It cares whether your packaging specs are encrypted at rest and in transit. Whether your shipping databases have role-based access controls. Whether your pack floor workstations live on segmented, monitored networks.
Not next quarter. Not next year. Right now.
The packaging and crating companies 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 operation be one of them?
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