Microsoft and AT&T will team with the Air Force on a three-year experimentation campaign pursuing a new approach to basic services like email and more reliable access to classified and unclassified Defense Department data, the Air Force recently announced. The Air Force's push to buy commercial IT services rather than procure and develop overarching systems is an umbrella effort known as "Enterprise Information Technology as a Service," or EITaaS. Contracting out for IT services is touted as a potentially cheaper,...
