Cleared GovCon Advisory · 25+ Years Inside the Defense Industrial Base
Fulcrum Advisory was built by someone who spent over 16 years operating inside a FOCI-mitigated defense contractor as VP of Information Systems and CISO — not advising from the outside, but working within a live, DCSA-scrutinized compliance environment where getting it wrong has real consequences.
That means every engagement is grounded in direct experience: running DCSA reviews, executing SSA and mitigation agreements, building CMMC-scoped system security plans, and deploying AI inside GCC High environments where the compliance boundary is contractually real and auditable.
The defense industrial base deserves advisors who have lived the frameworks they sell — not just studied them. That difference shows up immediately in the quality and specificity of the guidance we deliver.
Work with Us"Sixteen years inside the compliance environment — not consulting into it — means every recommendation we make has been tested under the same scrutiny our clients face. That accountability doesn't end when the engagement does."
— Fulcrum Advisory
16+ years operating as IS executive and security officer inside a FOCI-mitigated defense contractor. Led cybersecurity strategy, DCSA compliance, GCC High migration, and enterprise AI adoption across classified and unclassified environments under live DCSA scrutiny.
Primary point of contact for all DCSA interactions, SSA maintenance, and FOCI mitigation agreement compliance. Navigated multiple contract actions, facility clearance renewals, and beneficial ownership disclosure cycles.
Designed and deployed a production enterprise AI assistant on Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search (RAG), CosmosDB, and Node.js/Bot Framework — entirely within a GCC High CMMC-scoped boundary. In active production use.
25+ years of enterprise IT, cybersecurity, and systems engineering across defense and commercial sectors, including early SSA and FOCI compliance advisory work predating most of the market.
Fulcrum Advisory works with a limited number of clients at any given time to ensure every engagement receives direct, senior-level attention.
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