August 4, 2026 · 18 min read
On July 27, the Army approved BATDOK-J for Army-wide fielding as a download to hardware Soldiers already carry. The software had been in operational use with Air Force pararescuemen since 2019. What changed in the last ten months was the path to the Soldier, and that mechanism is the part worth copying.
July 31, 2026 · 20 min read
Federal law has looked at one of them. On January 1, 2027, it looks at all seven, and the two exceptions holding medical equipment out of the fight are the thinnest part of the wall.
July 3, 2026 · 14 min read
The military fielded its best readiness programs before it could measure them. The measurement finally exists. It lives in a journal, not in the Department's books.
June 30, 2026 · 13 min read
The Army fixed recruiting and started growing again. Keeping that larger force deployable became a contracted market worth hundreds of millions a year, and almost every contract that runs it comes due at once.
June 26, 2026 · 16 min read
The difficulty of building used to do two things at once. It revealed who made the work, and it forged the person who made it. We just made it optional.
April 18, 2026 · 13 min read
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 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 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.
February 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A structural shift in how defense health contracting works, and what capture and BD teams have to rewrite in their playbooks to keep up.
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