Also known as Enterprise IT as a Service, EITaaS allows defense agencies to focus more on the warfighter by outsourcing IT services to commercial companies in an effort to increase user efficiencies, effectiveness, and standardize network services across their entire base.

In part five of the “Let the Warfighter Fight” EITaaS podcast series, hosted on Government Technology Insider, Fred Ferares, Director of DoD Sales at Verizon, discusses how EITaaS helps promotes “any user, any device, any location” at the Department of Defense (DoD), as well as what the future holds for defense agencies in this new arena.

“We have been talking about ‘any user, any device, any location’ for many years, and this is an exciting time to now be delivering these capabilities to soldiers, sailors, and Marines. When you extend remote working to the warfighter with an infrastructure like EITaaS, the art of the possible moves into areas such as virtual reality and AI, and ultimately brings training to the service member – no matter where they are located.”

Listen to this full episode below.