Turn your gaps into a defensible plan.
A positive SPRS score is rarely a perfect 110 — it is an honest number backed by a Plan of Action & Milestones. The POA&M is what contracting officers and primes actually want to see: proof you know your gaps and have a dated plan to close them. Walk all 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls, capture a remediation, owner, and target date for each gap, and export a clean POA&M. No signup, nothing stored.
Walk all 110 controls
Mark each control Implemented or Not yet. For every gap, capture the plan — then export your POA&M.
A Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M) documents each unimplemented NIST SP 800-171 requirement, how you will remediate it, who owns it, and the target date. It is required alongside a System Security Plan (SSP) for a valid DoD assessment, and it feeds your SPRS score. This builder produces a working template you can export — it is not a certified artifact, and nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere. Keep your real POA&M as a living document.
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Four things per open item
A POA&M is only useful if each line is specific and dated.
The control and the weakness
Name the unmet 800-171 requirement and, in your real document, the specific deficiency behind it — not just the control number.
Remediation + owner
What you will do to close it and who owns the work. “Deploy MFA across remote access — IT lead” beats “improve security.”
A realistic target
Every open item needs a target completion date. Dates make a POA&M credible — and let you re-score honestly as you close items.