One ungoverned open-source component. Three financial consequences none of them are fines.
DO-178C delays cost program milestones. ITAR violations carry criminal liability and export privilege revocation. CMMC non-conformity ends DoD contract eligibility. The risk is the same source. The consequences compound.
DO-178C: A certification finding traced to missing software lifecycle evidence triggers a corrective action before type approval — resetting months of program timeline and compressing contract delivery windows.
ITAR/EAR: An undocumented open-source component with export control applicability discovered during enforcement review carries civil penalties up to $1.35M per violation and criminal liability up to 20 years per violation under 22 USC §2778.
CMMC 2.0: Commercial aerospace companies with DoD contracts face CMMC Level 2 requirements. Non-conformity produces contract disqualification — not a fine. Revenue exclusion from DoD programs is permanent until conformity is demonstrated.
X-DLM™ governs the open-source risk once. The evidence it produces satisfies all three.
DO-178C. ITAR. CMMC. Three financial risks from one ungoverned source.
One governed workflow — Black Duck and Siemens Polarion connected by X-DLM™ — produces DO-178C lifecycle evidence, ITAR component review records, and CMMC SBOM simultaneously. No duplicate effort across frameworks.
Maximum civil penalty per ITAR violation under 22 USC §2778. Criminal penalties carry up to 20 years imprisonment per violation. An undocumented open-source component with export control applicability is not a software defect — it is a criminal liability.
DO-178C certification delays are measured in program months, not days. A Software Accomplishment Summary finding that traces to missing traceability evidence resets certification timelines and compresses contract delivery windows across the entire program.
CMMC non-conformity rate required to lose DoD contract eligibility. One failed C3PAO assessment removes a company from all DoD contract programs until conformity is demonstrated — with no remediation window between assessment and disqualification.
Sources: ITAR 22 CFR §127.10. CMMC 2.0 Final Rule 32 CFR Part 170. DO-178C / ED-12C.
Three consequences. Three financial buckets. One source of risk.
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DO-178C certification delay — program milestone and contract delivery impact
A DO-178C finding at Software Accomplishment Summary review does not produce a fine. It produces a corrective action requirement that must be closed before type certification proceeds. For commercial satellite software, eVTOL programs, and avionics vendors, a certification delay compresses contract delivery windows, affects milestone payments, and triggers penalty clauses in delivery agreements. X-DLM™'s continuous DO-178C traceability eliminates the category of finding that produces certification delays from missing lifecycle evidence.
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ITAR/EAR violation — civil penalty and criminal liability exposure
Civil penalties for ITAR violations reach $1.35M per violation under 22 CFR §127.10. Criminal penalties carry up to 20 years imprisonment per violation under 22 USC §2778. Export privilege revocation closes export markets. An open-source component with cryptographic, guidance, propulsion, or space technology export control applicability that enters a controlled build without documented review creates individual criminal exposure for engineering and compliance personnel. X-DLM™ routes ITAR-relevant component flags from Black Duck into Polarion review workflows with documented approval before any controlled build.
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CMMC non-conformity — DoD contract disqualification
CMMC Level 2 is a contract eligibility requirement for DoD work — not a best practice. Non-conformity produces disqualification from DoD contract renewal across all programs, not just the one under review. For commercial aerospace companies with mixed government and commercial revenue, CMMC disqualification removes a significant portion of the revenue base. There is no remediation window between assessment failure and disqualification. X-DLM™ produces the CMMC evidence continuously — not assembled before a C3PAO assessment.
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Board risk register — three line items, one program
The board question for commercial aerospace CFOs is the same across all three consequence categories: are the governance program costs less than any single regulatory or certification consequence? DO-178C delay risk. ITAR criminal liability. CMMC revenue exclusion. X-DLM™ is not a security cost. It is the most cost-effective protection available against the three financial risks that reach a commercial aerospace CFO's desk.
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