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Hundreds of Doctors Fired by VA May Still Be Treating Veterans, GAO Finds The Department of Veterans Affairs' motto, shown on a plaque outside the Veterans Health Administration building in Washington, D.C. (Hope Hodge Seck/Military.com) 2 Feb 2021 Up to 227 medical providers dismissed from the Department of Veterans Affairs over poor-quality care may be treating veterans through the VA's networks of private physicians, a Government Accountability Office review has found. As a requirement of the VA Mission Act, the department began tracking providers in May 2019 to make sure they were eligibl...

Abstract Biosafety Level 4 labs are in the spotlight as speculation swirls that Covid-19 may have emerged from such a facility in either China or the US.  In the US, the mass proliferation of high-containment germ labs since 9/11, and its track record of safety lapses, remains a concern with the renewed interest in the field of biodefense.  In light of past accidents of anthrax leaks in US labs and SARS leak in Chinese labs, there needs to be improved regulation and governance of germ labs in order to mitigate rising risks of accidents that threaten public health, redress safety lapse provi...

By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 26, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — The military needs to improve how it determines housing allowances for service members and subsidies for private housing companies after a government report found the Pentagon doled out payments miscalculated by more than $1 million in some cases. The Government Accountability Office report released Monday delved deep into the Defense Department’s process for collecting data to determine the monthly allowance each service member should receive for housing. The allowance varies based on a service member's g...

Maintenance Update: The GAO is out today with a new and depressing report on the state of the public shipyards. Last week, we dug into a report by Maiya Clark at Heritage that detailed the Navy’s house-of-cards approach to fixing the shipyards’ woes. GAO drives the point home. Key Points: The Navy’s four shipyards completed 38 of 51 (75 percent) maintenance periods late for aircraft carriers and submarines with planned completion dates in fiscal years 2015 through 2019, for a combined total of 7,424 days of maintenance delay. For each maintenance period completed late, the shipyards ave...