Managed services purpose-built for the Defense Industrial Base — Microsoft 365 GCC High specialist, CMMC Registered Provider Organization, and one of a handful of partners that has supported a DIBCAC assessment of a C3PAO. If you're a defense contractor staring down CMMC Level 2 with a small IT team and a 7012 clause on every contract, this is the brief that pays for itself.
C3 is a managed services provider that has built its entire practice around one problem: getting defense contractors to and through CMMC certification without sinking the business under compliance overhead. They run Microsoft 365 GCC High and Azure Government environments, design CMMC-compliant architectures (their "C3 Suite of CMMC Solutions"), manage the day-to-day, and support the assessment process when it's time to certify. Post-Steel Root merger they're one of the deepest CMMC implementation shops in the channel.
If your contracts include DFARS 252.204-7012, you handle Controlled Unclassified Information, and CMMC Level 2 is on your roadmap (or already required), this is the conversation.
You can't hire a full GCC High admin and a NIST 800-171 specialist for a 50-person company. C3 is how that math works.
If you serve FedRAMP-required civilian agencies but not DoD, GCC (not GCC High) may be the right tier. Still a C3 conversation — different cloud destination.
If you don't have CUI or DoD contracts, you're paying a CMMC premium for nothing. Brief Drata for compliance automation in the commercial frameworks instead.