TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for Vermont

Vermont's Office of Purchasing and Contracting sits within the Department of Buildings and General Services and issues participating addenda under NASPO ValuePoint master agreements, giving state agencies, municipalities, and school districts a cooperative path to procurement instead of a standalone bid for every purchase. For a Cisco buyer, that means Catalyst switching and wireless refreshes across small state offices and rural school networks can ride an existing statewide contract rather than a from-scratch RFP, which matters in a state where most public buyers run lean IT staffs.

The Vermont Air National Guard's 158th Fighter Wing, the first Air National Guard unit to fly the F-35A Lightning II, operates out of Burlington and represents a genuine federal mission network requiring hardened, segmented infrastructure alongside base operations. The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, the state's largest hospital and one of its largest employers, serves as the referral hub for a five-campus academic health network spanning Vermont and northern New York — the kind of distributed clinical environment where Secure Firewall and ISE-based access control matter as much as core Catalyst switching.