Middletown-based Rite-Solutions has received a five-year, $60.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology services, including cybersecurity, for the naval service’s newest warfighting center.
The company was selected to support the National Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s (NUWC) Activity Chief Information Officer (CIO) / Information Technology (IT) division, which is responsible for the IT systems and infrastructure that supports the center’s operations.
Rite-Solutions will provide software engineering, system administration, cybersecurity, client support services, and more. The company employs a team of cybersecurity experts with over half of the personnel supporting the contract meeting the Navy’s strict Cybersecurity Workforce requirements.
“Cybersecurity touches every one of these areas,” notes Rocky Reeves, Rite-Solutions Sr Vice President and Director of IT Services. Over one-half of the personnel supporting this contract must meet the Navy’s strict Cybersecurity Workforce requirements. “This was a major reason Rite-Solutions won the contract. Many of our employees have degrees in cybersecurity or computer science as well as security and operating system certifications.”
“We are honored that NUWC chose to renew the contract with us,” says Rite-Solutions co-founder Joe Marino. “While we are rapidly expanding into new technologies that give the Navy an Information AdvantageTM, IT services and security remain a critical component of what we offer.”
The company will work with subcontractors SAIC, McLaughlin Research Corporation, Mikel, and others to support NUWC headquarters in Newport, RI as well as NUWC locations in Connecticut, Virginia, Florida, and the Bahamas.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) assisted a What’sUpNewp journalist with the reporting included in this story.