The Army is close to awarding three other transaction agreements for a new effort to update the Army's enterprise network more quickly. Lt. Col. Christine Youngquist, director of the Enterprise IT As-a-Service effort, told Inside Defense in a recent interview the Army is planning to award three OTAs by the end of this month and start contracting activities in fiscal year 2020. "From an Army perspective, owning the actual infrastructure, managing it and maintaining it ourselves takes a long time...