Cybersecurity is impacting defense contractors in many ways, most notably with the large and ever-growing regulatory compliance requirements. Such measures are forcing organizations to spend large sums of money – and operational time – in implementing a laundry list of cybersecurity controls. But it’s more than just compliance, it’s about ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of your network. With Arlington, our cybersecurity risk assessments and supporting cyber solutions cover all of today’s current cyber related issues, threats, challenges – and best practices – for ensuring a complete assessment of all things cyber.

Data is the new oil – one of the more notable statements of the new digital world we live in. For defense contractors, it’s about ensuring you have a complete picture of how your data is being collected, used, shared & disclosed, stored, protected, retained, and disposed of. Our data privacy risk assessments and supporting data privacy solutions will do just that – a deep dive in understanding the types of data groups and data sets you work with (i.e., internal company data, corporate IP data, client data, etc.) and what’s being done for ensuring the safety, security – and accountability – of your data.

Assessing one’s supply chain in terms of third-party providers is absolutely critical in today’s complex business arena. Defense contractors often rely on a large number of external entities for facilitating daily operational activities. With Arlington, we can dig deep into your supply chain to ensure you have a strong understanding of your entire list of third-party providers in terms.

From FISMA to FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171, eMASS – and more – regulatory compliance is alive and well in the DoD. Key to taming the compliance dragon is understanding the relevant risks associated with compliance, while developing an efficient process for annual reporting. Arlington can get you there – after all – we’re seasoned experts when it comes to regulatory compliance for the broader DIB.

As a defense contractor, are you making gains in terms of increased market share and profits? Are you looking to add additional products and services to your existing portfolio? Considering restructuring or even acquiring another business? Our decades of experience in the broader Defense Industrial Base (DIB) means you now have a proven, trusted partner for helping with any number of strategic moves you may be considering.

From urgent employee needs in today’s incredibly tight labor market to improvements in business efficiency – and much more – Arlington’s decades of defense expertise brings a wealth of operational knowledge to your organization. With a big, bureaucratic, and constantly growing North American defense industry, you need to be lean, efficient, always with an eye on the target for ensuring you stay competitive. Arlington has the experience in helping implement operational best practices for contractors working in the highly specialized defense industry.