diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e61537422e8..f1014e47a60 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -95,16 +95,7 @@ else ()
     endif ()
 
     # -- Dependencies --
-    add_subdirectory(dependencies)
-    if (CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR)
-        # Testing Dependencies
-        if (BUILD_TESTING)
-            message(STATUS "Building tests")
-            # Testing dependency
-            find_package(GTest 1.11 REQUIRED)
-            include(GoogleTest) # for gtest_discover_tests()
-        endif ()
-    endif ()
+    include(dependencies)
 
     # -- main build targets --
     add_subdirectory(src)
@@ -121,9 +112,6 @@ else ()
 
     message(WARNING "Anything below this warning is a TODO not yet implemented.")
 
-    message(STATUS "Setting up core library.")
-    message(STATUS "Prepare CRT dependency.")
-    message(STATUS "Building core library.")
     message(STATUS "Building core library tests.")
     message(STATUS "Add support for static analysis.")
     message(STATUS "Building client libraries.")
diff --git a/cmake/Findaws-crt-cpp.cmake b/cmake/Findaws-crt-cpp.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 24de17445cd..00000000000
--- a/cmake/Findaws-crt-cpp.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# This is a temporary mock file to be able to test our current build setup.
-# The file will later be read from aws-crt-cpp installation
-include_guard()
-message(WARNING "aws-crt-cpp package is mocked for testing of experimental feature branch. Remove this file when CRT starts providing it.")
-# Setting include path to the submodule temporarily to unblock testing
-# To make it build the crt submodule needs to be in-source build before calling this so generated files are created.
-# Removing this work around soon, working in parallel in making aws-crt-cpp consumable by normal means
-
-set(aws-crt-cpp_INCLUDE_DIRS ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include PARENT_SCOPE)
-set(aws-crt-cpp_LIB_DIRS ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib PARENT_SCOPE)
-
-
diff --git a/cmake/dependencies.cmake b/cmake/dependencies.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9c31a386fe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/dependencies.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Project dependencies http library (curl or OS), tinyxml2, cJSON, ssl (open or other), CRT
+find_package(CURL REQUIRED)
+find_package(ZLIB REQUIRED)
+find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED COMPONENTS Crypto)
+pkg_check_modules(tinyxml2 REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET tinyxml2>=9.0.0)
+pkg_check_modules(CJSON REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET libcjson>=1.7.15)
+message(STATUS "Checking for aws-crt-cpp version 0.18.2")
+find_package(aws-crt-cpp 0.18.2 EXACT REQUIRED)
+message(STATUS "  Found aws-crt-cpp version ${aws-crt-cpp_VERSION}")
+# Infer dirs and libs temporarily from aws-crt-cpp_DIR until they get shipped in the new CRT version.
+set(aws-crt-cpp_INCLUDE_DIR "${aws-crt-cpp_DIR}/../../../include")
+set(aws-crt-cpp_INCLUDE_DIRS "${aws-crt-cpp_DIR}/../../../include")
+set(aws-crt-cpp_LIBRARY_DIRS "${aws-crt-cpp_DIR}/../..")
+set(aws-crt-cpp_LIBRARIES aws-crt-cpp aws-c-common aws-c-event-stream aws-c-mqtt aws-c-s3 aws-c-auth aws-c-sdkutils aws-c-http aws-c-compression aws-c-io s2n aws-checksums aws-c-common aws-c-cal)
+set(aws-crt-cpp_LIBRARY_DIRS "${aws-crt-cpp_DIR}/..")
+
+if (BUILD_TESTING)
+    message(STATUS "Building tests")
+    # Testing dependency
+    find_package(GTest 1.11 REQUIRED)
+    include(GoogleTest) # for gtest_discover_tests()
+endif ()
diff --git a/cspell.json b/cspell.json
index ce643629f95..6775d6f4101 100644
--- a/cspell.json
+++ b/cspell.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
         // MSVC
         "msvc", "MSFT", "LPDWORD", "DATAW", "mkgmtime", "vscprintf", "wtoi", "msxml", "runtimeobject", "winhttp", "Wininet",
         // Crypto
-        "decryptor", "encryptor", "NTSTATUS", "PBYTE", "PUCHAR", "noconf", "HAMC", "PBCRYPT", "BCRYPT", "libcrypto", "AWSLC",
+        "decryptor", "encryptor", "NTSTATUS", "PBYTE", "PUCHAR", "noconf", "HAMC", "PBCRYPT", "BCRYPT", "libcrypto", "AWSLC", "COMMONCRYPTO",
         // EC2
         "IMDS",
         // Cognito
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
         // in DefaultRateLimiter
         "renormalize",
         // parameters defined in tinyxml2
-        "uval"
+        "uval",
+        // negated option in parameters
+        "DNON"
     ]
 }
diff --git a/dependencies/CMakeLists.txt b/dependencies/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e379e13bcb7..00000000000
--- a/dependencies/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Project dependencies http library (curl or OS), tinyxml2, cJSON, ssl (open or other), CRT
-find_package(CURL REQUIRED)
-find_package(ZLIB REQUIRED)
-find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED COMPONENTS Crypto)
-pkg_check_modules(tinyxml2 REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET tinyxml2>=9.0.0)
-pkg_check_modules(CJSON REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET libcjson>=1.7.15)
-find_package(aws-crt-cpp 0.17.9 EXACT REQUIRED COMPONENTS io)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core-tests/CMakeLists.txt b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core-tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 3a3e3e645c7..d8281b18275 100644
--- a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core-tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core-tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,20 +7,21 @@ if (NOT LEGACY_BUILD)
     )
     add_subdirectory(testing-resources)
 
-    add_executable(
-            aws-core-version
-            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/VersionTests.cpp
-            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/RunTests.cpp
-    )
+    add_executable(aws_core_test)
     target_link_libraries(
-            aws-core-version
+            aws_core_test
             PRIVATE GTest::GTest
             PRIVATE aws-sdk-cpp::core
             PRIVATE aws-sdk-cpp::test-resources
     )
+    target_sources(aws_core_test
+            PRIVATE
+            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/RunTests.cpp
+            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/VersionTests.cpp
+            )
+    gtest_discover_tests(aws_core_test)
 
-    #    add_subdirectory(monitoring)
-    message(WARNING "Not testing everything yet...")
+    message(WARNING "Building core test with new cmake scripts not yet implemented")
 else ()
     add_project(aws-cpp-sdk-core-tests
             "Tests for the AWS Core C++ Library"
@@ -145,4 +146,4 @@ else ()
     if (NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
         SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME ${PROJECT_NAME})
     endif ()
-endif ()
\ No newline at end of file
+endif ()
diff --git a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/CMakeLists.txt b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/CMakeLists.txt
index c170c7a44d7..42999c8a18d 100644
--- a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ if (NOT LEGACY_BUILD)
     )
     target_link_directories(
             aws-sdk-cpp-core
-            PUBLIC ${aws-crt-cpp_LIB_DIRS}
+            PUBLIC ${aws-crt-cpp_LIBRARY_DIRS}
             PUBLIC ${CJSON_LIBRARY_DIRS}
             PUBLIC ${tinyxml2_LIBRARY_DIRS}
     )
     target_link_libraries(
             aws-sdk-cpp-core
-            aws-crt-cpp aws-c-common aws-checksums
+            ${aws-crt-cpp_LIBRARIES}
             ${CJSON_LIBRARIES}
             ${tinyxml2_LIBRARIES}
     )
diff --git a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/utils/crypto/CMakeLists.txt b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/utils/crypto/CMakeLists.txt
index 46ad4fd7081..10d0fe10e6b 100644
--- a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/utils/crypto/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/utils/crypto/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-message(WARNING "not complete implementation yet")
 if (USE_OPENSSL)
     add_subdirectory(openssl)
 endif ()