Your AI Tools Just Became a CMMC Problem

Live Fireside Chat  |  Oct. 6, 2026  |  60 minutes  |  For defense supply chain manufacturers

The Phase 2 pause was not a reprieve. And your team did not stop using AI while everyone waited.

When DoD suspended CMMC Phase 2 in July, a lot of shops exhaled. Understandably. Third party certification was the expensive part.

Here is the problem. Nothing else paused. Self assessments, SPRS submissions, NIST SP 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012, incident reporting, and annual affirmations are all still in force, and the reform task force could bring Phase 2 back in a revised form. Meanwhile someone in your shop pasted a print into a chatbot last week to make sense of a callout, and that is a boundary question you cannot answer yet.

Rick and Vin sit down for an unscripted hour on where CMMC actually stands, what AI does to your position, and where you can use it today without creating a problem.

What we will get into

  • What the July pause actually changed, and the obligations that did not move
  • How CUI ends up inside a commercial AI tool, and why that is transmission outside your boundary
  • The questions to ask about any AI tool before it goes near controlled work
  • Where AI is safe and genuinely useful in a shop today, which is most of the business

Format

Sixty minutes. Forty five minutes of conversation, fifteen minutes of your questions. No slides. No product demo. No CMMC readiness pitch. Bring the question you have not wanted to ask in front of your prime.

Who should attend

Owners, presidents, COOs, quality and compliance managers, and IT leaders at manufacturers in the defense supply chain handling FCI or CUI.

Speakers

Rick Norberg, Chief Executive Officer, Vertikal6. 
Focused on business outcomes and client strategy.

Vin DiPippo, Chief Technology Officer, Vertikal6. 
Leads CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 implementation for DoD contractors and manufacturers, on the implementation side of the program rather than assessment.

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