Department of Veterans Affairs
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In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Veterans Affairs says it's ready to offer COVID-19 booster shots to veterans and employees who have received their first vaccine doses six months ago or longer.
September 27, 2021 -
The Government Accountability Office is planning to release a report in early fiscal 2022 about the cybersecurity impacts of technologies adopted in response to the pandemic.
September 01, 2021 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs anticipates it will develop an enterprise wide staffing model for direct patient care positions by 2022, with the goal of validating it by 2024. Without one, auditors said VA lacks a clear picture of its workforce needs.
August 20, 2021 -
The agencies are communicating their technical debt to vendors in an effort to upgrade outdated software.
August 19, 2021 -
The Small Business Administration, as part of the Biden administration’s diversity, equity and inclusion work, is stepping up to increase the percentage of federal contracting dollars that go to small, disadvantaged businesses.
August 16, 2021 -
House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations released the latest agency grades on progress around IT modernization goals.
July 28, 2021 -
Following instructions from the Office of Management and Budget, federal agencies on Wednesday began to impose new mask requirements for federal employees, contractors and visitors inside government buildings, regardless of their vaccination status.
July 28, 2021 -
A bipartisan group of House members are urging the National Archives and Records Administration to apply for assistance through Technology Modernization Fund to help digitize military records and address a backlog of pending requests more quickly.
July 27, 2021 -
Shelby Oakley, a director in the Government Accountability Office's Contracting and National Security Acquisitions team, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide ranging discussion of her agency's reports on key procurement programs in the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
July 27, 2021 -
Dan McCune, the acting associate deputy assistant secretary of the Enterprise Program Management Office at the VA’s Office of Information and Technology, said the software development efforts are delivering 80% of new software capabilities in 90 days or less.
July 13, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Veterans Affairs plans to add gender confirmation surgery to the list of benefits it offers to vets in its health care system.
June 21, 2021 -
Agencies have done their fair share of hiring during the pandemic, but the size of the federal workforce hasn't budged much in recent years.
June 14, 2021 -
The National Archives and Records Administration expects it will take 18-to-24 months to resolve a backlog of outstanding requests at the National Personnel Records Center -- once it has systems in place to digitize and share documents with other agencies.
June 07, 2021 -
Had the outcome gone differently, the case could have had potentially precedential consequences for federal employees, according to the Office of Special Counsel.
May 11, 2021 -
They're here to stay regardless. It works well when everyone keeps the mission as the North Star.
April 30, 2021