If you cut parts against government drawings, the drawing package itself is usually Federal Contract Information. That puts 15 safeguarding requirements on your shop — not the 110-control version, fifteen. Most shops already meet nine or ten and have nothing written down proving it.
FCI is the ordinary, non-public material the government or a prime hands you so you can perform the contract. It is not classified and it is not exotic. For machine shops, it usually looks like this:
A prime sends a new PO with FAR 52.204-21 flowed down, and someone at your shop has to affirm it. That is the moment this stops being theoretical.
Three requirements this trade tends to miss — not because the work is hard, but because nobody was ever asked to write it down.
The assessment scores all 17 assessable practices, not just these three. These are simply the ones that come up most often.
All 15 requirements in plain English, with a column for what counts as evidence for each one. Most people fill it out in about twenty minutes and know exactly where they stand. No call, no obligation — it is a one-page PDF.
The checklist tells you what the requirements are. This tells you which onesyou miss. Twelve questions, written for a business owner rather than an auditor, and a gap report that puts the fixes in order — quick wins first. Nothing is stored until you ask for the report.
Do you hold or bid on DoD contracts or subcontracts?
Same assessment, written for a different shop floor.