The experiment is expected to eventually lead to the wholesale replacement of the Air Force’s slow, cumbersome and ineffectual network with a modern, commercially procured one with improved speed, security and functionality.
The Army will effectively rent back-office IT "as a service" from contractors, allowing it to focus on modernizing the front-line network.
On today’s battlefield, mobility isn’t optional - it’s mission-critical.
The Army’s got lots of really old IT on its bases which may not hold up in a real war.
The existing, expensive network can't do what the Army needs. So is the solution outsourcing to the private sector?