MacZine
Field copies from the compliance frontier
Practitioner-grade articles on CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-171, RMF, and what it actually takes to operate secure systems in the defense industrial base — written, reviewed and versioned in the open. Published from Git, reviewed like code.
Explainer · NIST 800-171
How Your SPRS Score Is Actually Calculated
The DoD Assessment Methodology scores 110 controls on a 5/3/1 weighting and bottoms out at -203. Here is the arithmetic, and how a CO reads it.
Maxine's Pick · Subcontracting
DoD Paused CMMC Phase 2. Your Subcontract Flow-Down Didn't.
DoD suspended CMMC Phase 2's federal clause, but a prime's subcontract requirement is a separate instrument — and it doesn't lift itself.
Vision · Infrastructure, AI & Trust
Building the Trusted Future: Infrastructure, AI, and MacTech
How MacTech combines infrastructure, security, quality, and governance into systems a defense contractor can trust — and where AI is allowed to decide.
From the field · CMMC
CMMC Phase 2 Is Paused. Your Compliance Clock Isn't.
DoD paused CMMC Phase 2 certification to review the program — the DFARS and NIST 800-171 obligations under it did not. What to do during the review.
Platform Spotlight · AI & Automation
MacTech Suite: Running Twenty Platforms Without Twenty Teams
Inside the MacTech Suite: the internal command center that fixes deploys, fixes UI bugs, and now commissions MacZine — every action gated and logged.
Field Report · Secure Communications
Freehold: Secure Comms You Hold Outright
Peer-to-peer encrypted chat, calls and 2 GB file transfer for small DIB teams — post-quantum, air-gap ready, 800-171 evidence built in. Free, open source.
cmmc
The First 90 Days of a CMMC Level 2 Program
A practitioner's sequence for the first 90 days of CMMC Level 2: scope the CUI boundary, baseline against NIST 800-171, and start evidence discipline early.
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MacZine is the MacTech Solutions newsletter — practitioner-grade articles on CMMC, NIST 800-171, RMF, and defense industrial base compliance.