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Commercial Opportunity for the VA Medical Supply Chain 

The Coalition for Government Procurement

For example, the Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) has an opportunity to leverage commercial best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of medical supply logistics in delivering best value healthcare to veterans.

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SOCOM cuts years out of some SBIR phase 3 awards

Federal News Network

Lisa Sanders, the director of science and technology for Special Operations Forces in the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics office for the Special Operations Command in the Defense Department, said the command is cutting down the time it takes to field capabilities by years.

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Are you ready to be the manufacturer of the future?

ivalua

Such change is pushing manufacturers (and their solution providers) to reinvent nearly every aspect of their businesses from demand sensing to the plant floor, logistics, sourcing, supplier management, and financial management. The challenge seems enormous and clearly needs to happen sooner rather than later.

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Using the Tools at Hand to Get to Zero Trust

FedInsider

Prior to Verizon Wayne was the Chief Network Engineer for the Defense Logistics Agency Enterprise Telecommunications Wide Area Network serving approximately 27,000 civilian and military employees in 48 states and 28 countries.

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Cyber Resilience 2023 – Day Two: The Time to Act is Now!

FedInsider

For FedInsider, he has written many articles and white papers and acted as the moderator for over 20 interviews featuring federal, state and local officials discussing technology, policy and governmental issues.

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Government Contracts Inflation Update

Procurement Notes

As part of this, in a February 2023 white paper released by Former Fed. In an August 19, 2022 white paper, Francesco Bianchi, Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins, and Leonardo Melosi, Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, argued essentially that. [71] The experts are presently debating the prospect. [58]