Oct 29, 2018
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 controls to ensure the integrity of...
Oct 29, 2018
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 (Air Beam) tent-based Expeditionary...
Oct 26, 2018
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. Leading that effort is a group of...
Oct 20, 2018
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 on the city’s northwest...
Oct 19, 2018
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...
Oct 18, 2018
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...
Oct 13, 2018
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,...
Oct 12, 2018
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...
Oct 11, 2018
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...
Oct 4, 2018
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...
Oct 2, 2018
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...
Oct 2, 2018
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...