Several branches of the military are shifting to Enterprise IT as a Service, which outsources some core services to the private sector, including network transport, device provisioning, cloud services and even help desk functions.
As of August 2018, 13 federal agencies — slightly more than half of the 24 participating in the Data Center Optimization Initiative — had met or had plans to meet their data center closure targets. Fewer, though, were scheduled to achieve the Office of Management and Budget's performance measurement objectives.
The goal of the new contract, which is in the early stages of development, would be to standardize enterprise IT functions.
