Pentagon awards multibillion dollar health record contract to Leidos

The Pentagon capped off a more than two-year acquisition process for a new electronic health record Wednesday afternoon, awarding a $4.3 billion contract to a consortium of companies led by Leidos.

The new system will eventually be rolled out to more than a thousand sites around the world, replacing DoD’s homegrown and aging records system with a mostly-off-the-shelf IT product.

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