Author: Mary Shinn
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Hegseth promises to unleash small defense companies during Colorado visit
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited Colorado space companies last week and promised to cut bureaucracy within the Pentagon to ensure smaller defense businesses have a chance to compete for contracts. “If we are going to have space dominance and deterrence, we need to unleash every company possible,” said Hegseth, in a video filmed at…
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Hegseth promises to unleash small defense companies during Colorado visit
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited Colorado space companies last week and promised to cut bureaucracy within the Pentagon to ensure smaller defense businesses have a chance to compete for contracts. “If we are going to have space dominance and deterrence, we need to unleash every company possible,” said Hegseth, in a video filmed at…
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Secretary Hegseth promises to unleash small defense companies during Colorado visit
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited Colorado space companies Monday and promised to cut bureaucracy within the Pentagon to ensure smaller defense businesses have a chance to compete for contracts. “If we are going to have space dominance and deterrence, we need to unleash every company possible,” said Hegseth, in a video filmed at True…
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Crank hears concerns about veteran health care during federal push for change
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to offer $1 trillion in contracts over 10 years to fund more community care for veterans, an initiative intended to give veterans more choice in their health care. U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank and staff who work for the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Rep. Mike…
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20 years after Fort Carson soldier’s death, family seeks answers
Amber Stone reported her husband missing on Valentine’s Day 20 years ago. A week later he was found in a sewage treatment pond on Fort Carson. Stone is certain her husband, Joseph Eric Barker, didn’t walk barefoot across Fort Carson in the winter and go willingly into the pond. And so is his mom, Lynda…
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Researchers to study universal health care, as Coloradans face $1 billion in medical debt
Colorado residents owe about $1 billion in medical debt. The sky-high number is a small portion of the nation’s medical debt estimated around $220 billion, according to a 2024 analysis by Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF, formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation. As more people nationally are expected to lose their health insurance following planned…
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VA rule that could lower compensation paused after pushback
The secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs has halted a rule Colorado Springs advocates feared could incentivize veterans to not take medications for serious conditions over concerns they see their monthly disability payments drop. The interim final VA rule issued earlier this week stated that “if medication or treatment lowers the level of disability,…
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Fort Carson testing medical sensors to improve battlefield care
Future Army medics and doctors may obtain real-time vital signs from casualties in the field through wearable sensors, allowing them to provide better, more consistent care and potentially save more lives. Fort Carson soldiers tested the wearable sensors during a recent simulated mass casualty event as part of a larger exercise focused on building a…
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Rune Technologies’ software to modernize Army supply chain systems
Fuel, food, ammunition and spare parts — all are on what would seem like an endless list of needs to keep the Army moving in the field. Many of these needs are managed on spreadsheets and whiteboards, and take hours of manpower to manage. Rune Technologies, a Virginia-based company, is building software, TyrOS, to help…
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Cyberspace Symposium, robotics contest go on amid shutdown, look to inspire students
The Air Force’s former Chief Information Officer, Lauren Barrett Knausenberger, got her start in federal service learning cryptography as a 17-year-old through the National Security Agency. “I had this amazing early experience that really got me excited about government service,” she said during the Cyberspace Symposium on Tuesday at The Broadmoor. The Rocky Mountain Chapter…