The Iowa City VA Health Care System moved a number of specialty services into a new community clinic in downtown Iowa City. The VA said it will improve patients’ access to care and it will be a one-stop shop for services. On Friday, VA staff and local officials...
The FDA and the Department of Homeland Security signed a memorandum of agreement as part of a joint effort to address threats to medical device security, particularly among internet-connected products. Under the agreement, the FDA’s Center for Devices and...
The commander of Womack Army Medical Center called it the single most impactful change to military medicine in the last 25 years. But for the vast majority of the Fort Bragg hospital’s staff and patients, the change that took place on Oct. 1 went unnoticed. Womack,...
Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced it has appointed Michael S. Heimall, a former director at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, to take on new duties as director of the Washington DC VA Medical Center (DCVAMC) on...
A company that rents tents and other outdoor structures for events agreed to pay the government $7.8 million to settle charges that it wrongly won Defense Department set-aside contracts reserved for small businesses. Arena Americas, which does business from multiple...
Ready to jump into the $450 billion government contracting space? Don’t make these key mistakes. It’s no secret that the U.S. government is one of the largest buyers and sellers of goods and services in the world, leading to tremendous opportunity for companies that...
Faced with opposition from industry and the chairmen of the Armed Services Committee, the Defense Department on Monday rescinded a plan announced in August to pay contractors less money during the early phases of a contract. As reported first by Inside Defense and...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently awarded 13 major leases to improve access to care and deliver health care facilities to Veterans. These awards are a result of VA’s leasing business transformation effort to improve the timeliness of the lease...
The Defense Health Agency officially assumed administrative and management responsibilities of a handful of hospitals and clinics as part of the Military Health System reforms mandated by Congress. The transition of the facilities is part of a phased implementation...
Just one week before taking effect, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued a final rule on verification guidelines for veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, found in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (NDAA...
An Army medic who braved enemy rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire in Afghanistan to treat wounded soldiers will receive the military’s highest honor, the White House announced late Friday. Ronald J. Shurer II will receive the Medal of Honor, an upgrade to...
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a spending bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs that for the first time exceeds more than $200 billion. Trump signed the VA budget for fiscal year 2019 during a ceremony at the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System in Las...
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