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, 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 Level 1 and Level 2 (Self) requirements are in DoD contracts now, even with the Phase 2 third-party phase-in suspended since July 13, 2026 — 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, defense manufacturers among 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 could not tolerate interruption.
Solution: proactive managed IT across the agency’s systems.
Outcome: a fifteen-year managed IT engagement, carried through to the end of the contract term.
That engagement is summarized on our reviews page, alongside our other real client engagements. Read the engagement summaries →
Hosted in a facility aligned to a federal physical-security baseline — one we don’t put on a map
State, county, municipal and special-district workloads we host run on hardware we own, in a Southern California datacenter whose operator aligns its physical and environmental safeguards 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 design; its operator holds 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. The 99.9% uptime service level on hosted systems is a CRC Cloud commitment. 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. Framework work — NIST 800-53 for agencies, CMMC for contractors — starts on Secure IT, which contains everything in Core IT: $250 per user, or $312.50 with the published +25% CMMC uplift (agency NIST 800-53 programs are scoped at discovery). Cloud Complete adds our private cloud on top of it — $300 per user (Secure IT $250 plus a $50 shared hosted desktop) before any uplift.
| What you need | Core IT $125 not available for CUI or NIST 800-53 work |
Secure IT $250 | Cloud Complete $300 Secure IT + hosting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24/7 monitoring, help desk (emergencies 24/7), 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 |
| Hosted desktops & apps in our private cloud (servers billed at published rates; for state and local agency and contractor workloads — not federal agency systems, and not CUI, which requires a FedRAMP Moderate authorized cloud; see the FAQ) | — | — | ✓ |
| Disaster recovery of the whole environment from our second site (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. Compliance work starts on Secure IT — Core IT is not an option for a regulated environment. 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 Rev. 2 controls — then implement the technical controls and keep the evidence organized and current. CMMC clauses have been in DoD contracts since November 10, 2025, though the Phase 2 third-party (C3PAO) phase-in was suspended on July 13, 2026 pending a program review. DFARS 252.204-7012 still requires NIST SP 800-171, and CMMC self-assessments — with the SPRS posting and annual affirmation that go with them — still apply wherever a contract calls for Level 1 or Level 2 (Self), so the groundwork can’t wait. We prepare you for assessment; the certificate itself always comes from an authorized assessor.
Can our CUI live in your private cloud?
No. Under DFARS 252.204-7012, any cloud that stores, processes or transmits controlled unclassified information must be FedRAMP Moderate authorized or meet the FedRAMP Moderate equivalency requirements. CRC Cloud’s private cloud is neither, so we do not host CUI — and we will tell you that before you ask. What we do is engineer and manage the environment around it: the enclave scoping, the 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls, the evidence trail, and the systems that never touch CUI. Anyone who tells you their non-FedRAMP cloud can hold your CUI is either mistaken or hoping you will not check.
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 design; its operator holds 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. The 99.9% uptime service level on hosted systems is a CRC Cloud commitment. 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 have worked 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: one anonymized government engagement on our reviews page — fifteen years of managed IT for an agency whose public services could not tolerate interruption, carried through to the end of the contract term.
What does government IT support cost?
The same published pricing every CRC Cloud client gets. Framework work — NIST 800-53 for agencies, CMMC for contractors — starts on Secure IT: $250 per user per month for complete managed IT plus a 24/7 Security Operations Center. CMMC / DFARS work carries the published +25% uplift, $312.50 per user; agency programs against NIST 800-53 are scoped at discovery. Cloud Complete adds a hosted desktop on top at its flat published rate — $50 shared or $85 dedicated per user — with hosted servers billed at published rates. One-year initial term, then month-to-month with 60 days’ notice: no fee to leave after the initial term, and never an offboarding fee — terms a procurement office can read in one sitting. Public agencies: we add the terms your procurement rules require to the service order.
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, and disaster recovery from a second site we operate.
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 →
