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Program risk lives in the PMO, not in GRC
Schedule, cost, and technical risk sit in program reviews. Enterprise risk only sees them when a milestone has already slipped.
Aerospace & Defense · Essentials
Program riskwith a control environment to match
Defense and aerospace teams start with program, operational, and security risk — then add CMMC, ITAR, and controlled-goods obligations on the same workspace.
- CMMC
- ITAR
- Controlled goods
- Quality
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Program risk with a control environment
In the workspace
delivery, security, and quality
One register
- Risk
- Program and operational with named owners
- Security
- CMMC and ITAR on the same records
- Quality
- Findings that update residual risk
CMMCITARControlled goodsQuality
See how Essentials worksThe work
What defense programs actually have to hold together
Program delivery, quality, and controlled information are one operating reality. They are rarely one system of record.
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Controlled information is a parallel program
CMMC, ITAR, and controlled-goods requirements are tracked by security. They are not mapped to the operational risks of the programs that handle the data.
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Quality and safety are audited apart from risk
AS9100, safety cases, and nonconformances have their own cadence. Residual risk in the enterprise register does not reflect what quality already knows.
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Supply chain is the program
Primes, subs, and specialized suppliers sit on the critical path. Their failures are program risk, not a procurement score sitting in another tool.
How Essentials shows up
How Essentials shows up in aerospace and defense
Start with the risks that threaten the program. Add security and quality obligations on the same records.
Start with program and operational risk
- Give program and functional owners a register they will update
- See residual risk across programs without a roll-up deck
- Connect technical, schedule, and operational risk in one view
- Replace the annual enterprise register with a living one
Add CMMC, ITAR, and quality on the same data
- Map security and quality obligations to the programs they cover
- Collect evidence without a separate compliance silo
- Keep controlled-goods requirements next to operational risk
- Give security, quality, and risk the same workspace
Connect delivery to leadership decisions
- Link program risks to objectives and appetite
- Show leadership where residual risk sits before the next gate
- Report from live data instead of reconstructing the review
- Add incidents when you are ready, still on shared data
In the workspace
What lives in the workspace
Defense GRC that can sit next to how programs actually run.
Program risk with named owners
Technical, schedule, and operational risks are owned by the people running the work — not reconstructed for the quarterly enterprise review.
CMMC and ITAR obligations on the same records
Security requirements sit beside the operational risks of the environments that handle controlled information.
Quality nonconformances feeding residual risk
Findings and corrective actions link back to the risks they affect, so quality and enterprise risk tell the same story.
Leadership views at program gates
Heat maps and appetite status come from the live register. Gate reviews stop being a document reconstruction.
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