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The Memo Never Says "Veteran"
July 24, 2026
The Memo Never Says "Veteran" The White House released two documents on July 21. The report names a million veterans' genomic records as an asset to be...
Health Net Never Had a CMMC Deadline
July 17, 2026
Health Net Never Had a CMMC Deadline The Department of War suspended third-party certification on July 13. The mechanism that cost Health Net's parent eleven...
The Government Bought Frontier AI for a Dollar
July 10, 2026
The Government Bought Frontier AI for a Dollar The federal government put the most capable commercial AI models inside its agencies last year at about a...
[MMT Premium] The DHA acquisition chief seat is no longer Acting
July 9, 2026
For months, the most important acquisition seat at the Defense Health Agency carried an "Acting" label. The Component Acquisition Executive, the person with...
The Casualty Record That Starts Over at the Aid Station
July 7, 2026
The Casualty Record That Starts Over at the Aid Station The FY2027 budget cut combat-medicine research 59 percent and moved the work into an autonomy account...
The Operational Imperative That Almost Wasn't
July 3, 2026
The Operational Imperative That Almost Wasn't The military fielded its best readiness programs before it could measure them. The measurement finally exists....
The VA showed its FY26 IT hand. Premium members have the map.
July 2, 2026
Friends, In June, the VA held its FY26 IT Advanced Planning Brief to Industry. It is the closest thing the department gives you to a look at its own hand:...
Recruiting Was the Easy Part
June 30, 2026
Recruiting Was the Easy Part The Army fixed recruiting and started growing again. Keeping that larger force deployable became a contracted market worth...
Your AI assistant can now pull federal health IT intel straight from MMT
June 29, 2026
Quick one, because I think it says where this is all headed. Most of us work with an AI assistant open all day now. And it is sharp about general things and...
Whose Hands Were on It
June 26, 2026
Whose Hands Were on It 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...
The Interoperability Problem VA Already Solved
June 22, 2026
The Interoperability Problem VA Already Solved A veteran's record cannot move between two VA clinics running the same software. The fix everyone is watching...
What the Rural Hospital Knows, and the Network the Military Already Built
June 19, 2026
What the Rural Hospital Knows, and the Network the Military Already Built Tuesday's promise: the fix for the surgeon-readiness gap is already proven. Half of...
Two of Forty-Six
June 16, 2026
Two of Forty-Six The military built a precise way to measure whether its surgeons are ready for war. Last year it checked one specialty against the bar. Two...
The Expert You Cannot Buy Off the Shelf
June 12, 2026
The Expert You Cannot Buy Off the Shelf I was handed an AI-built pricing sheet last week with rates wrong enough to break a contract, and a hundred AI-...
The Honesty Premium
June 9, 2026
The Honesty Premium Six Army captains audited a fleet of dozer maintenance records, found more than 82% of the entries useless, and published it under their...
Industry Leader, Out of Scope
June 2, 2026
Industry Leader, Out of Scope On May 29, 2026, VA posted RFI 36C10B26Q0485, market research for an enterprise AI buy meant to move a 540,000-person workforce...
DHA Is Replacing How It Buys. The Budget Already Voted.
May 29, 2026
DHA Is Replacing How It Buys. The Budget Already Voted. On April 20, 2026, the Defense Health Agency replaced thirty years of how it buys medical capability....
A Researcher Talked a Clinical AI Out of Its Own Rules. DHA Is Fielding the Same Design.
May 26, 2026
A Researcher Talked a Clinical AI Out of Its Own Rules. DHA Is Fielding the Same Design. No code. No exploit kit. Plain English. A security researcher pulled...
The Fraud Was in the Workflow
May 19, 2026
The Fraud Was in the Workflow The strongest detail in the HealthSplash case is a physical-exam test, documented as performed, on a patient the clinician had...
The Reorg Lives or Dies in the Loading Dock
May 15, 2026
The Reorg Lives or Dies in the Loading Dock VA's SCMDSO procurement (solicitation 36C10B26Q0376) is the operating-architecture decision underneath VHA...
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