Veterans Affairs
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The continuous showdown continues on Capitol Hill this week. Congress returns to session, just days before the expected White House release of its 2024 budget request.
February 27, 2023 -
The challenges VA workers and all federal employees face are real and should not be dismissed. We have to do better for VA workers and all federal employees, and that starts with passing the FAIR Act and ensuring an 8.7% average pay increase.
February 27, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs has struck an agreement with one of its unions that would allow the agency to expedite the hiring process for certain employees.
February 22, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs sees progress on its hiring goals, as well as decreased attrition, as positive signs that it will be able to retain the health care workforce it needs to handle a surge of new patients.
February 21, 2023 -
The VA needs to keep breaking new records for claims processed, if it hopes to keep pace with a workload surge under the burn-pit toxic exposure legislation signed into law last summer.
February 17, 2023 -
A new governmentwide pay model for federal IT and cybersecurity employees is coming into focus.
February 16, 2023 -
House Republicans are challenging the latest legal decision to limit the Department of Veterans Affairs’ ability to fire employees, under a law Congress passed more than five years ago.
February 16, 2023 -
Terry Adirim, the program executive director of the VA’s EHR Modernization Integration Office is leaving the agency, effective Feb. 25.
February 10, 2023 -
The White House is promoting its unity agenda as a playbook for what the administration can accomplish with a Republican-controlled House.
February 07, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs' hiring metrics are headed in the right direction, as the agency looks to staff up on healthcare workers to meet its growing workload.
February 06, 2023 -
Federal employees who want to appeal an adverse personnel action to the Merit Systems Protection Board face a short deadline – 30 calendar days from the effective date – to do so.
February 06, 2023 -
FEMA brings back a familiar face to be its new CIO while HHS, the Navy and GSA fill key technology leadership roles.
February 01, 2023 -
Two of the top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading colleagues in calling on the VA to postpone future rollouts of its new, multibillion dollar Electronic Health Record until improvements are made.
January 31, 2023 -
Few people heard of the FAA's NOTAM system until it crashed and brought aviation to a standstill earlier this month. The FAA blamed a contractor for accidentally deleting files, such that the system failed to synchronize.
January 31, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is more than halfway to meeting its hiring goal for health care workers this fiscal year, and ahead of schedule to achieve its workforce goals this fall.
January 26, 2023