It could just be an excuse to award a contract to a variety of local security firms to perform a "Post-Kaspersky Security Audit" at great expense in the interes

It could just be an excuse to award a contract to a variety of local security firms to perform a "Post-Kaspersky Security Audit" at great expense in the interest of National Security, but that's just baseless cynical speculation. It's a weird move, and I would like to imagine that there is some solid reasoning behind the endeavor besides posturing and playing up to hot-button issues. But it really does just seem like the sort of issue that either ends up in bureaucratic limbo (e.g., Kaspersky remains installed for months while agencies look to find a replacement that meets their criteria) or that leaves the computers unprotected while the search continues.