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Army, Air Force Tap Goodwill Industries To Scan And Send Records To VA
The Army and Air Force have contracted with a division of Goodwill Industries to scan and then transmit to the Veterans Affairs Department millions of pages of service treatment records of Army and Air Force personnel discharged this year. Read More »
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Federal Agencies Embracing Use Of Open Source Software Code
Federal agencies that previously relied on expensive, built-to-order software are now following a growing trend to embrace open source code. Read More »
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I’m Very PTSD Aware
Both the Army and the VA want us all to be aware that this is PTSD Awareness month and do something about it. Read More »
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Moving Patients Back to Military Hospitals Top Priority
Shifting military family members back into military hospitals and clinics for health care is a top priority, the head of the Defense Health Agency said during a visit here Thursday. Tricare Prime, used by about 1.5 million active-duty family members, requires beneficiaries to be assigned to a primary care provider within the military treatment facility if one is available. But if the closest facility is at capacity or the family is pushed into the community for care for some other reason, those families may instead be seen by a civilian provider of base. The Defense Health Agency wants those patients back...
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Oldest Open-Source Software Kept By Army
Since 1938, the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., was the center for the United States Army's research efforts in ballistics and vulnerability/lethality analysis. That remained the case until 1992, when BRL was disestablished and its mission, personnel and facilities were incorporated into the newly created U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Read More »
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SBG Technology Solutions Awarded Contract Extension to Support Veterans Affairs' VistA Evolution Program And Advance Electronic Healthcare For Veterans
SBG Technology Solutions...was recently awarded a contract extension with the Department of Veterans Affairs to continue to support the execution of the VistA Evolution Program by providing Program Management Office (PMO) support, technical consulting, financial, acquisition and strategic communications support.
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Sharing Records Called Key To VA Health Care
...A July audit by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Defense Department failed to make proper records transfers to the VA. In the Army, 77 percent of records transferred in 2013 were not timely and 28 percent were not complete, the audit said...
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The DEA and Military Rx Drugs
Drugs or alcohol were involved in 29 percent of Army suicides between 2005 and 2010 -- no surprise since the Defense Department hands out prescription drugs like candy on Halloween, as I have reported in Nextgov's Broken Warrior series. Some of those drugs also are traded by troops, an activity that can lead to abuse and addiction...
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The Last Battle: Is The Army Doing Enough To Help Soldiers Suffering From Mental Health Problems?
The Army has rolled out program after program aimed at identifying and helping soldiers who suffer from mental health problems related to a decade of war. Despite those efforts, figures show that soldiers and veterans continue to commit crimes and take their own lives in record numbers.
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Too Many Wars, Too Few U.S. Soldiers
I guess I knew it would eventually come down to this: Blame the Army’s institutions in some way for the horrific and senseless slaughter of 16 innocent Afghan civilians in Kandahar, allegedly by a U.S. infantry non-commissioned officer (NCO)... Read More »
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Wounded Soldiers Languished 540 Days In Fort Riley Transition System
Soldiers in the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Riley, Kan., spent an average of a year and half -- 540 days -- working their way through a system that is supposed to determine their fitness for duty within a year, the Defense Department Inspector General reported yesterday. Read More »
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