DoDIN-Approved Cisco Networking & SD-WAN at Fort Drum, NY

The 10th Mountain Division runs two of its three brigade combat teams from Fort Drum, alongside a combat aviation brigade, sustainment brigade, and division artillery — a full divisional slice concentrated on one installation. Network buyers supporting this footprint deal with a wide range of environments: barracks and administrative Wi-Fi across a large garrison population, aviation-adjacent networking for the combat aviation brigade, and training-area connectivity across training land that regularly sees sub-zero winter conditions. Catalyst wireless and switching handle the garrison and barracks load, while Secure Firewall and ISE segmentation separate garrison IT from anything touching aviation operations or classified training systems.

Fort Drum's rural North Country location means IT vendors need to plan around regional logistics as much as procurement rules — deliveries can be affected by winter weather, and the post's relative distance from major metro areas makes reliable vendor support and stocked inventory more valuable than for posts near large cities. Procurement still runs through the standard playbook: GPC for small purchases, GSA Schedule or SEWP for larger IT buys, and DoDIN APL listing plus TAA compliance expected on every network device that touches an Army network, regardless of vehicle.