Air Force awards $121M in Enterprise IT-as-a-Service 'experiments'

FedScoop: The Air Force made awards Wednesday totaling $121.7 million to kick off experiments for its Enterprise IT-as-a-Service (EITaaS) transformation program.

The EITaaS program is meant to outsource basic commodity IT operations to commercial providers so that the Air Force can free up airmen for more specialized, cyber-focused network defense and mission assurance.

AT&T won the first of the two awards worth $87.4 million through an other transaction agreement (OTA), according to a Department of Defense award announcement. Microsoft received the second, another OTA worth $34.4 million.

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