Government & Public Sector IT, Aligned to NIST 800-53 & CMMC
Public-sector IT carries a mandate private business never sees: safeguard sensitive data, keep citizen services running, and answer for every control when oversight comes asking. We deliver managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud built for that standard — efficient, transparent, and ready to modernize without disrupting the public it serves.
We work both sides of the government line: agencies and special districts that need NIST 800-53-aligned operations, and the primes and subcontractors whose defense contracts hinge on CMMC 2.0 and NIST SP 800-171. Four decades of quiet infrastructure work — under a policy of never naming who it's for.
What government IT has to answer for
Whether the letterhead says federal, state, county, municipal, or special district, the demands are the same — and each one has a specific technical answer:
| The mandate | How we answer it |
|---|---|
| Sensitive data that cannot leak | Encryption, multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection and response, and access controls mapped to NIST 800-53 control families — public trust is lost exactly once |
| Public services that cannot stop | Proactive 24/7 monitoring, tested backups, and disaster recovery — most failures are caught and fixed before a citizen ever notices |
| Modernization that cannot break what works | Staged migrations with tested rollbacks and geo-separate replication, planned around service continuity rather than vendor convenience |
| Compliance that must be evidenced | Documented controls, monitored systems, and audit-ready records — alignment you can hand to an auditor, not just a promise |
| Contract requirements moving fast | CMMC 2.0 enforcement is live — primes and subcontractors need NIST SP 800-171 controls implemented and evidenced, not planned |
| Lean teams with broad mandates | Co-managed options that add 24/7 coverage and enterprise tooling around the internal staff you already trust |
We can own the plumbing too — from network & server infrastructure to the business internet your counters and field staff depend on — so accountability sits in one place.
Two lanes, one standard
Government work reaches us from two directions — the agencies themselves, and the private contractors serving them. Different rulebooks, same discipline:
Public-Sector Agencies
Federal, state, county, municipal, and special-district IT: NIST 800-53-aligned managed services, citizen-centric modernization, and security operations that protect public trust.
NIST 800-53 alignment →
Government Contractors
Primes and subcontractors handling controlled unclassified information (CUI): CMMC 2.0 gap assessment, NIST SP 800-171 control implementation, and the evidence trail your contracting officer expects.
CMMC readiness →
Defense Manufacturers
Where the shop floor meets the supply chain: CMMC-aligned security wrapped around production uptime, intellectual-property protection, and the legacy equipment that runs the line.
Manufacturing IT →A track record we can show without naming names
Public-sector work demands discretion twice over — so our government track record is published the way everything here is: anonymized, in Challenge → Solution → Outcome format, with no agency named.
Managed IT for a Government Agency.
Challenge: public services that cannot tolerate interruption. Solution: proactive managed IT across the agency's systems. Outcome: smooth, uninterrupted operations.
Secure Data Migration for a Government Agency.
Challenge: sensitive data that had to move without exposure. Solution: a secure migration with minimal downtime. Outcome: the migration completed with no data lost.
Both studies — and eleven more across regulated industries — live on our reviews page. Read the case studies →
Hosted to a federal physical-security baseline — in a facility we don't put on a map
Government workloads we host run on hardware we own, in a Southern California datacenter held to published standards whose physical and environmental safeguards align with NIST 800-53 (PE) controls at the High baseline — the same control family federal systems are measured against.
The facility is engineered to a concurrently maintainable, Tier III-standard design and maintains SOC 1 & SOC 2 Type II attestations, ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS certifications and NIST 800-53 (PE) High alignment, with N+1 redundant power and cooling and a 99.9% uptime service level. Its exact location stays confidential by design — the discretion we apply to client names applies equally to where their systems live.
Tour the datacenter standards →How NIST 800-53 alignment works →
How our plans fit government work
Two plans, and a hosting decision on top of either one. Secure IT contains Core IT; Cloud Complete adds our private cloud to whichever of the two you pick — $175 on Core IT, $300 on Secure IT. Agencies and contractors usually land on Secure IT — the 24/7 Security Operations Center does the heavy lifting for framework alignment.
| What you need | Core IT $125 | Secure IT $250 | Cloud Complete $175 or $300 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24/7 monitoring, helpdesk, patching, EDR, MFA, managed firewall | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Network segmentation between public-facing and internal systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 24/7 Security Operations Center & managed detection and response | — | ✓ | ✓ with Secure IT |
| SIEM log intelligence & dark-web monitoring for credentials and data | — | ✓ | ✓ with Secure IT |
| Servers and files hosted in our private cloud | — | — | ✓ |
| Geo-separate replication of the whole environment (point-in-time backup is billed per server at published rates) | — | — | ✓ |
Not sure where the framework work starts? The free assessment is NIST CSF-based — it maps your environment against the functions auditors ask about and tells you honestly what you need, including when Core IT is enough. Have internal IT? Co-Managed IT splits the work. See every published rate →
Related industries we serve
Defense suppliers live at the seam between government and industry — see manufacturing & industrial. Grant-funded and mission-driven organizations share the stewardship mandate — see nonprofits & associations. Or explore all our industry playbooks.
FAQ
Do you work with government contractors, or only public-sector agencies?
Both. Agencies get managed IT and cybersecurity operated in line with NIST 800-53 control families — access control, audit and accountability, incident response, contingency planning. Contractors — primes and subcontractors alike — get the CMMC 2.0 and NIST SP 800-171 groundwork their defense contracts depend on: gap assessment, control implementation, evidence, and ongoing management.
Can you help with CMMC for our DoD contracts?
Yes. We assess your environment against CMMC 2.0 — Level 2 alone maps to all 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls — then implement the technical controls and keep the evidence organized and current. Enforcement is live and third-party assessments are phasing in, so the groundwork can't wait. We prepare you for assessment; the certificate itself always comes from an authorized assessor.
Do you certify or guarantee NIST 800-53 or CMMC compliance?
No — and be wary of any provider who says otherwise. Certification and authorization decisions belong to assessors, auditors, and authorizing officials. Our job is the engineering underneath: aligning systems to the framework, implementing and managing the controls, and keeping documentation ready for the people who do the certifying.
Where is our data hosted?
In a Southern California datacenter held to published standards, on hardware we own. The facility is engineered to a concurrently maintainable, Tier III-standard design and maintains SOC 1 & SOC 2 Type II attestations, ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS certifications, and NIST 800-53 Physical and Environmental (PE) controls at High-baseline alignment, with N+1 redundant power and cooling and a 99.9% uptime service level. The exact location stays confidential by design — publishing where sensitive workloads live only helps the people trying to reach them.
Can you tell us which government agencies you work with?
Not publicly — and that answer is part of the service. We never name clients, public-sector or private, in marketing. What we publish instead: two anonymized government case studies on our reviews page — managed IT that kept public services running without interruption, and a sensitive data migration completed with no data lost.
What does government IT support cost?
The same published pricing every CRC Cloud client gets: Core IT $125 per user per month for complete managed IT, Secure IT $250 with a 24/7 Security Operations Center, and Cloud Complete from $175 when we host your infrastructure ($300 with the 24/7 SOC). One-year initial term, then month-to-month with 60 days' notice and no exit fees — terms a procurement office can read in one sitting.
We have internal IT staff. Can you work alongside them?
Yes. Co-Managed IT fits the public sector well, where lean internal teams carry broad mandates. Your staff keep the institutional knowledge and set the priorities; we add 24/7 monitoring, a Security Operations Center, patching discipline, and enterprise tooling that would be hard to justify buying alone.
Can you modernize aging systems without disrupting public services?
That is the job. Government modernization means moving records and citizen-facing systems without breaking the services people rely on. We plan around continuity — staged cutovers, tested rollbacks, geo-separate replication — the same discipline behind the zero-data-loss migration in our government case studies.
Going deeper on the frameworks? Start with CMMC compliance, NIST 800-53 alignment, or the CMMC 2.0 guide on our blog.
Priced openly, like everything else we do. CMMC / DFARS work for contractors carries a published uplift of +25% on the per-user plan and per-server management fee — on Secure IT that is $312.50 per user per month. Agency programs against NIST 800-53 are scoped at discovery. See the full compliance uplift table →
