Industry News
FDA to speed up review of medical products for U.S. military
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 ... Read More
DOD To Audit Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Due To SBA Changes
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 ... Read More
Next Generation Expeditionary Medical Facilities on Display at NEMSCOM
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 ... Read More
Army Medical Command breaks records, exceeds Fiscal Year 2018 Small Business Goals
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. ... Read More
New Veterans Affairs medical clinic planned for Muncie
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 Read More
New Veteran Affairs clinic opens in downtown Iowa City
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 Read More
FDA signs agreement with Homeland Security to improve medical device security
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 ... Read More
Womack leads Army in transition to Defense Health Agency
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 ... Read More
VA appoints new director for DC VA Medical Center
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 ... Read More
Defense Contractor That Posed As Small Business Forfeits $7.8 Million
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, ... Read More