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Defense

Efforts to diversify military target of culture wars

Congressional concerns about affirmative action and recruiting problems for the armed services reveals a fault line in how the military should set policies to increase diversity.

Veterans Affairs

VA vows to pause EHR rollout at future sites until strategic review is complete

Veterans Affairs

McDonough acknowledges productivity concerns with VA’s new EHR

Veterans Affairs

VA marking milestone with initial EHR rollout, but long-term road ahead still unclear

Veterans Affairs

Multiple delays later and VA says it's nearly ready for the initial EHR rollout

Veterans Affairs

VA's latest IT project? A digital GI bill transformation

Veterans Affairs

How VA drastically expanded telehealth during the pandemic

Veterans Affairs

VA sets new July goal for initial electronic health record rollout

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Veterans Affairs

Congress seeking more answers on VA electronic health record delay

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs

VA insists it's ready for initial EHR deployment at first go-live site in March

Seth Moulton

Congress

Congressional task force looks at long-term strategy for China and Russia

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Veterans Affairs

Why VA is scrapping a successful pilot in favor of Cerner's scheduling system

Fred DeMarco

TSP

Lawmakers, observers denounce moving TSP fund to China-inclusive index in 2020

FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported Saturday, June 20, 2015, online ahead of its Sunday editions. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Veterans Affairs

VA's plans for maintaining VistA spark cost concerns for new electronic health record

Technology

Pentagon, VA say new joint office will assume authority for multibillion-dollar EHR projects

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Veterans Affairs

VA hires IT systems integrator to meet new Forever GI bill implementation deadline

Veterans Affairs

VA's legacy IT spend is going up, even as growing list of new projects call for tech upgrades

Veterans Affairs Secretary nominee Robert Wilkie testifies during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

Veterans Affairs

Congress questions VA's 'fuzzy math,' persistent leadership gaps on EHR

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Technology

As DoD, VA begin multibillion dollar EHR rollouts, Congress asks who's in charge

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Veterans Affairs

Senate sets date for VA CIO nomination hearing, amid concerns of 'rudderless' EHR leadership

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Veterans Affairs

Fresh faces in Congress leading VA EHR oversight with new veterans subcommittee

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Defense

Why are so few troops signing up for one of DoD's most flexible personnel pilot programs?

Gregory Beaudoin

Reporter's Notebook

Lawmaker wants to make military sabbatical program permanent