Working Group Basics

As some application periods close, new working groups will open.

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee provides oversight of the CMMC-AB financials to assure accuracy and completeness. To successfully accomplish the oversight role, the Audit Committee also oversees internal policies related to financial reporting integrity including conflicts of interest, document retention and destruction, protection of whistleblowers, and executive compensation and the Risk Management program.

Current Working Groups
None Available

Board Leadership
Akin Akinbosoye
Wayne Boline
Karlton Johnson

Communications Committee

Establishing the CMMC-AB is an incredibly comprehensive, inter-dependent, and unique initiative.  The complexity behind the effort reveals itself in layers and affects communities compromising hundreds of thousands of people both in the U.S. and abroad.

The Communications Committee strives to establish communications that inform and excite all stakeholders in a transparent and consumable manner.  For communications that are transparent, yet consumable, the CMMC-AB needs creative and innovative thinking and design from day one.  Everything is new.  How do we communicate with impacted or interested stakeholders across the nation and across the world?

Current Working Groups
None Available

Board Leadership
Chair, Wayne Boline 
 
 

Credentialing Committee

Builds and controls the process for validating assessment results, issue and track credentials for:

1. Training material
2. Training organizations
3. Trainers
4. C3PAOs
5. Assessors
6. Marketplace listings

Board Leadership
Chair, Jeff Dalton 
Co-Chair , Akin Akinbosoye 
Wayne Boline 

 

Finance Committee

The Finance Committee paints the fiscal picture for the CMMC-AB, from pricing to funding, insourcing vs. outsourcing.

Help us build a cost-effective, transparent, compliant non-profit.  We are laying a foundation now, that will last generations.

Current Working Groups
None Available

Board Leadership
Chair, Yong-Gon Chon
 

Infrastructure
Committee

The Infrastructure Committee works with the DoD PMO to design and establish the shared, highly secure data store for the CMMC audit results.  In addition, the committee builds and maintains the web portal that is available for trainers, C3PAOs, assessors, and organizations to interact with the AB.  The web portal will include a marketplace for matching organizations with potential C3PAOs and solutions that can help address identified gaps in cybersecurity controls prior to certification.

Current Working Groups
None Available

Board Leadership
Chris Golden

Nominations and Governance Committee

The CMMC-AB is committed to ensuring diversity of thought and diversity of membership in its board.  Guidance for nominees after the initial board includes:

• 3 members from small business
• 1 member from a large defense supply chain business or joint venture 
• 1 member from the audit community
• 1 member from the financial community
• 1 member from the cybersecurity community
• 1 member from the operational/risk management community
• 1 member from academia
• 1 member from the incident management community

Current Working Groups
None Available

Board Leadership
Chair, Charlie Williams

 

Standards Management Committee

 

The DoD has provided a cutting edge CMMC model to the AB.  The Standards Committee must decide the thresholds for validating that an organization has met the standard for each control.  Its work is foundational to all of the other committees.  It will also look forward beyond today's standard to make recommendations to DoD for future inclusion in the CMMC model.

Board Leadership
Chair, Regan Edens 
Akin Akinbosoye 


 

Strategic Relationships Group

The CMMC Strategic Relationships Group is the focal point for orchestrating and framing partnerships and alliances agreements on behalf of the AB. The group is comprised of the AB Lines of Effort Leads and the Vice Chairman and Governance.    
 
Strategic Relations includes, but is not limited to:

• Partners where enduring collaboration is expected for mutual benefit.
• Sponsors that provide event or initiative support
• Donors that provide support legal gifts
• Alliances or other entities that are interested in providing support to or strengthening the AB

 Near term objectives

• FFRDC and UARC partnerships,
• Extending AB engagement in other Federal agencies
• Extending AB engagement with partnership nations

Board Leadership
Chair, Karlton Johnson

Training Committee

Preparing an industry for a required assessment of cybersecurity posture requires effective delivery of training to both the assessors and their trainers.  The training committee will oversee the creation of:

1. Training materials
2. Training publication guidance
3. Criteria for training
4. Training tools
5. Creation of the assessor, trainer, and other examinations

The #1 takeaway from our "One Thing" survey (available on the CMMC website in January 2020) was that assessors should be knowledge and competent in the materials reviewed during an assessment.  This committee will deliver.

Board Leadership
Chair, Ben Tchoubineh 
Co-Chair, Regan Edens 
Akin Akinbosoye 
Wayne Boline 
Jeff Dalton