Department of Veterans Affairs
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Devon Hewitt, a partner at Protorae Law and a member of the American Legion's Small Business Task Force, summarizes the findings of the DoD IG report on contracting with service-disabled veteran-owned businesses.
April 09, 2012 -
Host John Gilroy is joined by CNSI Senior Vice President Shaliesh Patel. They will discuss the challenges in helping citizens get more involved in their own healthcare. November 29, 2011(Encore presentation December 20, 2011)
November 29, 2011 -
The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Amy Morris discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.
November 28, 2011 -
In the Department of Veterans Affairs, it took two years and a big culture change to raise the rate of on-time deliveries of IT projects from below 30 percent to just shy of 90 percent. But according to VA\'s CIO, those changes amount to his department giving itself its own budget increase.
November 28, 2011 -
The buyouts and early retirements apply to billing and collection jobs in 11 regional health care networks. They are part of VA\'s initiative to consolidate accounting activities.
November 23, 2011 -
President Barack Obama will sign into law Monday legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed veterans.
November 21, 2011 -
Agencies have four months to develop diversity and inclusion plans under a broad, brief governmentwide strategy released Thursday. Proponents say, by making the President\'s Management Council responsible for progress, the strategy will succeed where past measures have failed.
November 21, 2011 -
Acting CIO Howard Hays said the agency is taking advantage of the work VA is doing to update its systems. Indian Health Services borrows heavily from VA\'s VistA electronic health records system. November 17, 2011(Encore presentation December 29, 2011)
November 18, 2011 -
Lisa Doyle is chancellor of VA\'s Acquisition Academy.
November 17, 2011 -
Kelly O\'Connor, president of Efiia Cares, shares details of the program.
November 16, 2011 -
VA\'s expert on that front is Glenn Haggstrom, the executive director of the department\'s Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction. joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris from the 2011 Government Contract Management Conference with his perspective on acquisition.
November 16, 2011 -
Jan Frye, the deputy assistant secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department\'s Office of Acquisition and Logistics, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris live from the conference to discuss the big issues in contract management.
November 14, 2011 -
The agency puts employees in pools based on their expertise, and then the employees move from project to project based on the needs of that program. VA now is working on 60 percent more projects than under the previous approach. November 10, 2011(Encore presentation December 22, 2011)
November 10, 2011 -
Maj. Brian Hampton is president of the Center for American Homeless Veterans.
November 10, 2011 -
The Court of Federal Claims rules in VA\'s favor on five of six counts. But VA must relook at Standard Communications\' bid to see if it meets the solicitation\'s best value criteria.
November 10, 2011