Cybersecurity Services for Red River
Red River is a technology transformation company serving government and enterprise customers that was named to CRN's 2026 Solution Provider 500 and the 2026 MSP 500 Elite 150.
CWS is not affiliated with Red River. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.
Red River at a glance
- Founded
- 1995
- Operates in
- United States
- Verticals
- commercial, federal defense, federal civilian, federal healthcare, SLED
- Vendor tiers
- Cisco Federal Civilian Partner of the Year (2025), NetApp North America Civilian Partner of the Year (2025)
- Recognition
- CRN Solution Provider 500 (2026), CRN MSP 500 Elite 150 (2026)
- Acquisitions
- Accunet Solutions (2016), systems integration and IT consulting, Natoma Technologies (2017), application development, became the Enterprise Application Division, Ambonare (2018), cybersecurity consulting, Invictus (December 2025), lead integrator on the Defense Intelligence Agency's Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System modernization, supporting MARFORCYBER, STRATCOM and INSCOM
- Ownership
- Acacia Partners invested in 2018. Cerberus Capital Management acquired a majority stake in June 2021 from the founding shareholders and Acacia Partners, with some founding shareholders retaining a minority position
Compiled from public sources: redriver.com company and press release pages, Red River, Red River Acquires Invictus to Strengthen Cyber and Enterprise Modernization Capabilities (December 3, 2025), Valley News, Private equity firm buys Claremont IT company Red River Technology (June 3, 2021), NH Business Review, Cerberus Partners acquires Red River Technology (June 3, 2021), Valley News, Red River Buys Tech Integrator, Expands Reach (October 29, 2016), Washington Technology, Red River uses acquisitions to drive its business transformation (June 16, 2017).
The Challenge for Enterprise Resellers
Red River began in 1995 in Hanover, New Hampshire as Red River Computer Co., moving hardware for the military, then set up in a converted mill building in Claremont. Accunet Solutions in 2016 and Natoma Technologies in 2017 had already pushed the company past pure resale. Corporate headquarters now sits in Chantilly, Virginia. In December 2025 the company bought Invictus, lead integrator on the Defense Intelligence Agency's modernization of the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, and turned it into the government services business unit
So there are effectively two companies wearing one badge. Invictus runs cleared programs at MARFORCYBER, STRATCOM and INSCOM, which means engineers with active clearances and a hiring pipeline measured in quarters rather than weeks. The rest of the business sells commercial, SLED and federal civilian work, where a customer who wants a security migration scoped in June expects it delivered in July. Putting a cleared engineer on that job wastes a scarce asset. Leaving it unstaffed loses the deal. Cerberus Capital Management has held the majority since 2021, and growth targets set by a fund do not pause while recruiting catches up
This is the part CWS takes off the plate. Our engineers deliver under the Red River name, held to a standard that does not change between the United States and Canada, with bilingual coverage where Quebec or Canadian federal engagements call for it. Scope, price and track the work in Corova, and your team keeps the client conversation while ours does the build. No badge of ours ever appears in front of your customer
Relevant CWS Services for Red River
Based on Red River's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.
Why This Matters for Red River
Clearances constrain one half of Red River and speed constrains the other. Solving both with a single recruiting plan is how integrators become slow at the thing they were once fast at. A subcontracted bench costs less than one you have to keep warm between programs
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