Federal Contracting & Compliance Support

Federal-Focused Support
Federal cybersecurity compliance support is a documentation discipline as much as a technical one. RDX helps program teams produce and maintain the artifacts an assessment depends on: system security plans, control implementation narratives, configuration baselines, and the plans of action and milestones (POA&Ms) that track remediation honestly. As an RMF support contractor, we work alongside your ISSM, ISSO, and system owners through categorization, control selection, implementation, and assessment preparation, and we keep the paperwork aligned with what the system actually does. That last part matters. Documentation that drifts from reality is the fastest way to lose an assessor's confidence. Because RDX is an SBA-certified SDVOSB with an active SAM registration under NAICS 541512, our work can be procured through SDVOSB set-asides where your acquisition strategy allows it, and we team readily with primes that need a compliance-focused small business on their roster. Everything we deliver is built to be handed over, audited, and maintained by your own staff.

NIST Framework Alignment
RDX aligns its engineering and documentation practices to the NIST frameworks federal programs are measured against. For federal information systems, that means NIST SP 800-53 control families, mapped to the RMF steps your authorizing official expects to see. For contractors handling controlled unclassified information, it means NIST SP 800-171 practices and the assessment evidence that supports them. Where certificate and key management is in scope, we draw on NIST SP 1800-16 guidance for TLS certificate lifecycle practices, which pairs naturally with our certificate lifecycle management work. To be clear about what alignment means: these are frameworks we build to and document against, not certifications RDX holds or grants. Our value is translation. We take control language that reads as abstract policy and turn it into specific, testable statements about your environment, your tooling, and your operational procedures, then we keep those statements current as the system changes. That is what keeps an assessment moving instead of stalling on unanswered questions.

Continuous Monitoring Automation and Audit-Ready Evidence
An authorization is not a finish line. Continuous monitoring is where most programs feel the ongoing cost, because evidence has to be collected, reviewed, and reported on a schedule whether or not anyone has spare hours that week. This is where RDX's automation background earns its keep. Our engineers work with Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Tines, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, and the surrounding ITSM, SIEM, and EDR stack to automate the repeatable parts of ConMon: scheduled control checks, evidence capture with timestamps and sources, POA&M status updates, and reporting packages your ISSM can stand behind. Automation runs the collection. People make the calls. Every automated action is logged, so the evidence trail shows not just that a control was checked but when, how, by what, and who reviewed the result. That is the audit-ready posture we build toward: fewer scrambles before an assessment, and answers that are already sitting in the record.

Use Case
Picture a small defense support program six months out from its next assessment. The system security plan was last touched two contract cycles ago, POA&M entries live in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts, and monthly ConMon evidence is assembled by hand the week it is due. A team like RDX would start with the documentation: reconcile the SSP against the running system, rewrite control narratives to match reality, and move POA&M tracking into a structure with owners, dates, and milestones. In parallel, the automation work would begin: scheduled jobs in the program's existing SOAR and SIEM tooling to pull evidence on a calendar, file it with timestamps, and flag gaps for a human to review. By assessment time, the program would walk in with current documentation and a monitoring record that generated itself, with people reviewing outcomes instead of chasing screenshots.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does RDX obtain or guarantee an Authority to Operate?
No, and no contractor should promise one. An Authority to Operate is a risk decision made by a government authorizing official, not a deliverable a vendor can hand over. What RDX does is make that decision easier to reach: we help prepare and maintain the system security plan and control narratives, keep POA&Ms current and credible, and build the continuous monitoring evidence that shows the system behaves the way its documentation says it does. Our role is support. The authorization decision, and the risk acceptance behind it, always belongs to the government.

Is RDX eligible for SDVOSB set-aside contracts?
Yes. RDX Enterprise, LLC is a veteran-owned, SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business, so our work is eligible for SDVOSB set-aside and sole-source consideration where an acquisition strategy supports it. Our SAM registration is active, with CAGE code 19YR5, UEI ZTVUCZYMVL69, and primary NAICS 541512. We also team as a subcontractor with primes that need SDVOSB participation with real cybersecurity engineering depth behind it. If you are shaping an acquisition or building a team, contact us and we will provide a current capability statement.

What does continuous monitoring automation actually involve?
It means the repeatable parts of ConMon run on a schedule instead of on someone's overtime. Using platforms such as Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, or Tines connected to your SIEM, EDR, and ITSM systems, we build jobs that collect control evidence, record where and when it came from, update POA&M status, and produce reporting your ISSM reviews and signs off on. People stay in charge of judgment calls, exceptions, and risk decisions. The automation handles collection and record-keeping, which is exactly the part humans do worst under deadline pressure.

Secure. Automate. Govern.
To scope RMF documentation, NIST 800-171 alignment, or continuous monitoring automation support for your program, email RDXenterprise@rdxenterprise.com or call 919-219-8508. RDX Enterprise is an SBA-certified SDVOSB in Clayton, North Carolina, registered and active in SAM.