Any Gov Employees Using "PIV Card" Readers?

Greetings All-

I know there are many Govt employees here who have been allowed to "Telework" from home and use their Personally Owned Equipment (POE) versus having a Govt Laptop assigned to them -which would entail using a Card Reader so that they could use their PIV Card to plug into one of the USB Ports off it.

However, those of use using any Mac / Apple products as our equipment face a challenge of the Govt Card Readers NOT being recognized on our Mac Devices, thus we (In My Govt Organization anyway) must utilize whats called "MobilePass Tokens" which are obtained from an app downloaded from our App Store. These are used along with our normal Login User Id & Password too.

BTW- I am using a Citrix / CAG VPN to access the Gov Agency (Non Classified obviously!) and would rather use the PIV Reader.

My questions is : Does anyone know of any hardware that can be used to read these PIV Cards - OR software to enable an external Card Reader to be recognized on a Mac Device for the purpose of reading a PIV for this "Dual Authentication" system?

NOTE: I know there are some out there to read "CAC" Cards but these are NOT the same as "PIV" Cards folks.

(I Tried that route already) ***Also- if posted in wrong forum - please move if necessary as I could not figure out where. Thanks.

Message was edited by: GunnyFitz Added the system used to access Gov Outlook, etc.