Listen Live
Trending:
VA, IT, data
AP20254624331138
AP/Charles Dharapak
Veterans Affairs

$3B VA supplemental passes House, senators urge final vote by Friday deadline

VA needs the emergency funding by Friday to avoid delays in compensation and pension benefit payments that go to 7 million veterans and their survivors.

Federal Newscast

Senators introduce bill authorizing new VA facilities in eight states

Federal Newscast

Senate takes up bill today to keep government open through early March

Defense News

Military to civilian transition classes falling behind requirements

Pay

First Look VA committee leaders demand 'guardrails' for bonuses as agency claws back payouts to career executives

Workforce

Exclusive Senate VA bill directs agency to rethink how it fires poor-performing employees

Budget

Senate plans to take back $290M in TMF funding in 2024

security clearance
Intelligence Community

Senators push major reforms to government’s security classification process

VA- Electronic Health Record
Veterans Affairs

VA EHR linked to veterans 'fatally harmed,' senators say, but agency still sees way forward for project

health care
Amelia Brust/Federal News Network
Veterans Affairs

VBA sees automation tools as ‘game-changer’ to keep up with record workload

IT modernization
Veterans Affairs

VA embarks on year-end push to implement workforce elements of PACT Act

IT modernization
Veterans Affairs

Senate committee calls on VA, DOJ to improve accessibility to federal technology

AI/ML, Energy, AI artificial intelligence concept Central Computer Processors CPU concept
Congress

A busy week for Congress with a Chips Bill that keeps growing

VA-EHR
Veterans Affairs

VA health staffing shortages back on the rise after years of progress

IT modernization
Veterans Affairs

VA looks to overhaul pay, 'antiquated' hiring processes in major veteran care bill

Jerry Moran
Veterans Affairs

With deployments ramping up next year, senators seek more transparency on VA EHR

veterans affairs spokane washington, Mann-Grandstaff
(Spokane VA Medical Center Photo)
Veterans Affairs

Congress troubled by deteriorating morale among employees using new VA EHR

Joe Biden
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Veterans Affairs

VA makes the case for another record funding request in 2022

veteransaffairs-featured2
Amelia Brust/Federal News Network
Veterans Affairs

Bipartisan group of senators ask VA to rank and prioritize unfunded IT projects

Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient Alford Washington, Sr., receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Alanna Williams at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System's gymnasium in New Orleans, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Washington was part of the Pathfinder Unit in Vietnam where he survived a plane crash that killed 7 people in Oct. 28, 1967. He said he had no concerns receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. (Sophia Germer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
(Sophia Germer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
Veterans Affairs

Senators push for more doses and bigger role for VA in vaccine distribution

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden wants to “restore the soul of America.” First, he'll need to fix a broken and divided Congress. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Federal Newscast

Senators want answers regarding SolarWinds cyber attack

FILE- In this July 8, 2020 file photo, Eric Antosh has a nasal swab taken by a nurse at a COVID-19 testing site in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York broke a COVID-19 testing record Friday, July 31, 2020, by conducting 82,737 tests, the highest number ever conducted in a single day in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Saturday in a written statement. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Federal Newscast

Lawmakers hope to secure more funding for NIH's coronavirus efforts

Robert Wilkie, Richard Stone
Veterans Affairs

VA doesn't have the personal protective equipment it needs to handle second pandemic wave

1 2