
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord said on Nov. 18 that she has a few things left on her priorities plate in the last two months of the Trump administration, including continuing to educate the defense industry and DoD acquisition workforce on the rewrite of the DoD 5000 regulations to speed fielding of systems; releasing a final rule by Nov. 30 on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC); and educating defense companies how to use it. "It's scaleable and tailorable so…