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Homeless U.S. military veterans stand in line for free services at a 'Stand Down' event hosted by the Department of Veterans Affairs in Denver, Colorado.
VA Technology Chief ‘Can’t Take Another Four Years’
Roger Baker, the Department of Veterans Affairs chief information officer, says his decision to resign on March 8 isn’t tied to a better offer — he just needs to “recharge some batteries.” Baker, who’s overseen some of the VA’s most...
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A combat-disabled veteran of the Vietnam War demonstrates his newly fitted Otto Bock Healthcare X2 prosthetic limb with a physical therapist at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
VA, Military to Beat Health-System Deadline by Changing Their Goal
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pledged last year to “meet or beat” a 2017 deadline to integrate two health-records systems, one for troops and the other for veterans. Now, Panetta and Eric Shinseki, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, are...
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Vice President Joe Biden arrives during the presidential inauguration on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 21, 2013 in Washington.
Veterans Partied on Without Obama
President Barack Obama skipped the American Legion’s veterans ball for the second time, favoring his own inaugural event for service members. About two dozen recipients of the Medal of Honor joined hundreds attending the organization’s “Salute to Heroes” ball, a...
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The International Space Station (ISS) over Miami, taken from the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
NASA: May the Best Kids’ Code Win
NASA plans to upload code developed by teens to control bowling ball-sized satellites aboard the International Space Station. The off-the-wall experiment tomorrow is part of a contest sponsored by the elite Pentagon research unit known as the Defense Advanced Research...
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People walk through a newly-renovated corridor at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
Pentagon Off (Oops) by Billions
The Pentagon announced on Dec. 5 that C.R. Bard Inc. won a maximum $4.67 billion, one-year deal to deliver surgical products to the military. The award would have been a coup for Bard, representing almost twice the company’s $2.9 billion...
Read more »IDL Dances With CACI After Federal Health Contract
IDL Solutions Inc., a small health-care technology firm, got its “ticket to the dance” in 2007 after winning a seat on a federal contract valued at $4 billion over a decade. Now, it has a dance partner: CACI International Inc.,...
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss the National Defense Authorization Act.
Bonus Buster Becomes Law
Senior federal employees risk losing bonuses if their agencies fail to meet government goals of awarding 23 percent of eligible contract funds to small businesses. The bonus-busting measure is part of the defense bill signed into law today by President...
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Community and chain drug stores may have lost their fight in refilling maintenance medication under Medicare.
Retail druggists get lump of coal from Congress
Congress gave retail pharmacies a lump of coal for Christmas and may have tossed a few sugar plums to McKesson Corp. and Express Scripts Inc. Community and chain drug stores have spent much of 2012 fighting a push for more...
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Members of Utah National Guard's 211th aviation unit attend a job fair.
Watchdog to Vets: Sorry, No More Contract Protests
A U.S. government watchdog agency said today it will no longer hear protests from military veterans seeking to use a 2006 law to get first dibs on contracting opportunities from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Government Accountability Office has...
Read more »Agencies Help Vets; Don’t Ask How
With $1.2 trillion in automatic U.S. budget cuts looming, some federal agencies have gotten tight-lipped. Spokesmen for two federal agencies declined to discuss what their offices do and who they help once learning a Bloomberg News story would address the...
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