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The Scorecard DHA Already Publishes
September 11, 2026
The Scorecard DHA Already Publishes Vice Adm. Darin Via's line that data is the Defense Health Agency's North Star got loose this week. The strategy...
The Man Who Publishes His Plan
September 4, 2026
The Man Who Publishes His Plan This week Matt Clark told his LinkedIn network he had accepted the job of Assistant Director for Research, Development, and...
LinkedIn found out yesterday. Premium knew in July.
September 3, 2026
Yesterday, Matt Clark announced on LinkedIn that he officially accepted the role of Assistant Director for Research, Development, and Acquisition and...
The Keystone
August 28, 2026
The Keystone On October 3, 2025, three days after a Navy reservist finished more than 1,400 consecutive days on active duty, the Defense Health Agency told...
Filed Under Document Drafting
August 25, 2026
Filed Under Document Drafting VA's Inspector General reported in June that clinicians were drafting patient notes with two generative AI chat tools, neither...
The Marine Corps Answered Him First
August 18, 2026
The Marine Corps Answered Him First On August 11 in New Orleans, the Director of the Defense Health Agency told an industry audience that the character of...
A Plate Read Launches an Aircraft
August 11, 2026
A Plate Read Launches an Aircraft Flock's drone lifts off a dock on three triggers, and the third is a license plate hit. VA has bought the plate readers....
The Pentagon Asked
August 7, 2026
The Pentagon Asked In April I wrote that the ecosystem would either build a shared evidence layer before the Pentagon asked for one, or scramble after. On...
Ten Years to Build It. Ten Months to Field It.
August 4, 2026
Ten Years to Build It. Ten Months to Field It. On July 27, the Army approved BATDOK-J for Army-wide fielding as a download to hardware Soldiers already...
Seven Steps to a Magnet
July 31, 2026
Seven Steps to a Magnet Federal law has looked at one of them. On January 1, 2027, it looks at all seven, and the two exceptions holding medical equipment...
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...
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