April 22, 2026
Constitutional compliance, mission-centricity, and economic efficiency. The three principles being tested in the federal contracting laboratory that will reshape how $775 billion in annual contract spending gets allocated.
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April 18, 2026
USUHS delivered the most comprehensive single-day MHS performance assessment in years on April 13. The evidence runs against several assumptions built into the budget Congress is now marking up.
April 15, 2026
The Department of War CIO just added five senior advisors in a single move. The backgrounds tell you the priorities: cyber, cloud migration, industry partnerships, and data infrastructure.
April 14, 2026
The four-month procurement freeze is over. The FAR Part 19 rewrite that took effect in the middle of it is not getting the attention it warrants. The Rule of Two no longer applies to task orders under multi-award vehicles.
$3.139 Billion in Mandatory Funding. One Subaccount. The FY2027 Military Health Budget. (2 of 2)
#89April 10, 2026
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
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.
The FY2027 Federal Health Budget: $56 Billion for the Network, $4 Billion for the System (1 of 2)
#87April 7, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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.