DoDIN-Approved Cisco Networking & SD-WAN at Fort Riley, KS

Fort Riley functions as a complete division post: the 1st Infantry Division headquarters, its brigade combat teams, and roughly 90,000 acres of training land all draw on the same installation network backbone. That scale means IT buyers here handle both garrison administrative networking — barracks and headquarters Wi-Fi on Catalyst access points — and the more demanding requirements of range instrumentation and tactical network integration labs where units train before deployment. Segmentation matters because training networks, garrison IT, and anything touching command and control need to stay cleanly separated, which is where Secure Firewall and ISE-based policy enforcement typically come in.

As a large FORSCOM-legacy division post, Fort Riley's contracting office runs a steady cadence of IT refresh actions, from GPC micro-purchases for individual offices to larger competitive awards for garrison-wide upgrades. GSA Schedule and SEWP are the common vehicles for hardware buys, and vendors are expected to show DoDIN APL listing and TAA compliance without prompting — division-level IA staff review new equipment against both before it touches the network. Given the Big Red One's ongoing rotational and training tempo, buyers also weigh how quickly a vendor can support both fielded equipment sustainment and new-unit standups.