TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for North Carolina

The North Carolina Department of Information Technology's Statewide IT Procurement Office sets specifications and standards for IT products purchased, licensed, or leased across state agencies and educational entities, and manages statewide term contracts — such as Contract 204A for microcomputers and related peripherals — designed to aggregate demand so agencies and schools get competitive pricing without each running its own solicitation. That centralized model gives a K-12 district or a university IT department a pre-negotiated path to Cisco Catalyst switching and access points instead of a from-scratch RFP.

Fort Liberty covers more than 251 square miles and over 161,000 acres, housing Army Airborne and Special Operations Forces alongside Joint Special Operations Command, while Camp Lejeune's 246 square miles make it the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base runs the Air Force's F-15E Strike Eagle training mission — together representing sustained federal demand for TAA-compliant network infrastructure. On the civilian side, UNC Health and Duke Health operate large multi-hospital systems across the Research Triangle, including a newly announced joint children's hospital, where Cisco Secure Firewall and ISE segmentation support the kind of multi-site clinical network compliance these systems require.