On Thursday, Nov. 29, Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery came together with military medicine leaders during AMSUS for a panel discussion on the future of the services as they begin to transition...
Who are these salespeople, and why are they there? The answer to the first question is pretty easy. These sales reps typically work for medical device companies, such as Stryker, Medtronic or DePuy Synthes. Many surgeries, especially orthopedic trauma and cardiac...
The Washington, D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center is looking to expand its emergency department in the face of increasing patient volumes. The project, to be considered at the National Capital Planning Commission’s Dec. 6 meeting, would include construction of a...
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced it will modernize federal acquisition by consolidating the agency’s 24 Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) into one single schedule for products and services. The MAS transformation is part of GSA’s Federal...
In honor of National Veteran Small Business Week, the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs is pleased to introduce its new Veteran Entrepreneurship Logo Program. Veteran-owned businesses that are registered with the state, and in good standing, can display the...
Each year, the U.S. Air Force aims toward meeting a goal of issuing about a fifth of its contracts to small businesses, but it’s finding that many of the firms it works with just aren’t that small. That leaves the Air Force missing out on a lot of cool ideas it could...
This week the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) took a key step in its digital modernization effort by revamping its website accessed by 10 million customers per month who use VA’s tools and content online. To improve this experience VA’s Veterans Experience...
The U.S. FDA today announced a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Defense to accelerate regulatory assessment of medical products for military personnel. Congress last year passed a law to expedite regulatory review of products to diagnose, treat or...
DOD recently announced it will audit registered contractors that are Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) for set-aside and sole-source contracts. The audit comes six years after IG concluded DOD lacked adequate controls to ensure the integrity of...
Sailors from Navy Expeditionary Medical Support Command (NEMSCOM) conducted a field exercise at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown-Cheatham Annex, Sept. 10. This field exercise validates the new design for a 24-bed Air Supported Temper (Air Beam) tent-based Expeditionary...
Headquarters, Army Medical Command awarded approximately $917 million in contracts to small businesses in fiscal year 2018, meeting all five of the socioeconomic goals assigned by the Director of the Army’s Small Business Program. Leading that effort is a group of...
Plans are in the works for construction of a new Veterans Affairs medical clinic in the central Indiana city of Muncie. A developer is seeking a zoning board’s approval to build a nearly 28,000-square-foot clinic near Indiana 332 on the city’s northwest...
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