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$3.139 Billion in Mandatory Funding. One Subaccount. The FY2027 Military Health Budget. (2 of 2)
#89April 10, 2026 · 6 min read
The unified Defense Health Program filed its last budget in FY2026. Two new accounts replace it. The mandatory injection concentrated in a single infrastructure line funds the next decade of military medicine outside the standard appropriations process.
April 7, 2026 · 2 min read
GSA Solicitation Refresh 31 expands Transactional Data Reporting to all Special Item Numbers across the Multiple Award Schedule. TDR is now mandatory program-wide. Here's what changes for contractors.
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Subscribe FreeThe FY2027 Federal Health Budget: $56 Billion for the Network, $4 Billion for the System (1 of 2)
#87April 7, 2026 · 9 min read
The VA built workforce reduction into its budget model. The oversight account monitoring the $56.2 billion network it's building around that assumption is down 5.1%.
April 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Three major federal health IT contract vehicles are moving simultaneously in a 90-day window. The firms that position now will define the next decade of defense and VA health technology.
March 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Federal contractor vetting runs on self-disclosure, does not apply to civilian agencies, and does not apply to $499 million in AI contracts that required zero foreign influence review.
March 31, 2026 · 12 min read
Federal contractor vetting runs on self-disclosure. It does not apply to civilian agencies. It does not cover $499 million in AI contracts that required zero foreign influence review.
March 26, 2026 · 2 min read
The conformed TOPRs settled who owns the risk. VA's own OIG, GAO, and Congress documented the governance gap. Here is what the winning proposals have to build.
March 24, 2026 · 9 min read
New research and a confirmed government breach show that the safety guardrails on deployed clinical AI are behavioral rules, not architectural limits. Federal health is deploying ambient AI faster than it is governing it.
March 19, 2026 · 5 min read
The difference between using AI and deploying it is the difference between a demo and a production system. Here's what that looks like in federal health IT.
March 17, 2026 · 5 min read
While DHA drafted data strategy documents, military treatment facilities were managing real patient load. The gap between strategy and operations is the gap that kills readiness.
March 14, 2026 · 5 min read
SOAP notes in military health are the atomic unit of clinical documentation. But the system that produces them is the system nobody audits.