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$56.2B community care (+17%); VBP models enter new contract
$4.24B appropriation request; 13 MTF go-lives Q3-Q4 FY2026
RFP release window late FY2026/early FY2027 — 100PB archive, 17B images, dual-EHR MPI
+12 more signals across DHA, DHA CDAO, PEO DHMS, ARPA-H, CMS, and compliance
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Karen Brazell, DSL, PMP Senior VA Innovation LeaderThis week's analysis.
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 new portfolio-based acquisition model, a requirements process built to kill 'bring me a rock,' and an FY2027 budget that already voted on where the money goes. Here is what changed, who runs it, and how it shows up in live contracts.
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 60 pages of hidden instructions out of an AI doctor, rewrote them, made it triple a drug dose. The Defense Health Agency is fielding the same architecture in military exam rooms right now.
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