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If the Senate confirms her, the White House's nominee for national archivist said the veterans' record request backlog would be the “most important discrete problem” facing her.
The Justice Department is telling the Department of Veterans Affairs that state government officials cannot pursue criminal or civil charges against its employees for performing abortions.
Deputy VA Secretary Donald Remy told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee that the agency won’t proceed with future EHR go-lives until it addresses persistent outages and patient safety concerns.
For many people who contract the COVID virus, the illness comes and goes. Others develop what's known as long COVID. Symptoms last weeks or months. The Veterans Affairs Department has developed what it calls a whole health approach to long COVID. With how VA practitioners are dealing with long COVID, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Dr. Elizabeth Brill, the deputy assistant undersecretary for health.
Some members of Congress and veterans support organizations think a fourth administration within the Department of Veterans Affairs is necessary to add focus on transition, employment and education.
For a period of some 35 years, a million people were potentially exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, the Marines base camp in North Carolina. Since 2017, veterans from that era are presumed to have service-related illnesses from drinking that water.
VA was the only large agency to increase its employee satisfaction score in 2021, but VA senior leader Gina Grosso said workforce improvements don’t end there.
No fewer than six agencies over the last six weeks promoted or hired new executives to focus on cybersecurity challenges, demonstrating the continued demand for these skillsets.
Kurt DelBene, the assistant secretary for the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer at VA, said he is adding more rigor to the process to get systems and application on the network.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will now provide abortions for veterans in life-threatening situations due to a pregnancy or in cases of rape and incest.
Many agencies are working to improve customer experience. An important element of that is convenience and identification and verification of those accessing digital services. Now the Veterans Affairs Department has expanded its use of login.gov for that very purpose
A poll of veterans shows discouragement about withdrawal from Afghanistan and many veterans have mental health issues
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been concentrating on improving service to its veteran constituents. And its had some success. Surveys show a 24% jump in trust in VA over the past few years.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, does telework help or hurt diversity efforts? And was the Coast-Guard-connected couple in Hawaii in the spying business?