Patty Murray

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

The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee introduced new legislation that would require regular reports from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the cost,…

Veterans Affairs

VA resuming EHR deployments in March, restructuring management of massive project

Veterans Affairs

(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Rhett Isbell)

Air Force faces first test from Congress in divesting from legacy systems

Air Force

New mechanism for VA to screen patients, employees for coronavirus

Federal Newscast

A portion of President Donald Trump's first proposed budget, focusing on the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and released by the Office of Management and Budget, is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

HUD ‘moving quickly’ with data-driven analysis to spend $3B in pandemic funding

Big Data

GSA takes aim at those submitting fake comments on proposed regulations

Federal Newscast

Lawmakers ‘extremely concerned’ about impacts of EEOC’s proposed official time policy

Workforce Rights/Governance

Senate Democrats ask administration for alternative budget options to OPM-GSA merger

OPM Reorganization

USDA launches new website for Centers of Excellence

Federal Newscast

Close-up Of Businesspeople With Files Sitting On Chair

Longer probationary periods will get another look in Congress this week

Congress

4 NDAA amendments to watch as Senate takes up bill

Congress

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Report: Broader data access, stronger security part of improving evidence-based policies

The new report includes 22 recommendations, including the creation of a National Secure Data Service, and asking Congress to lift certain bans on data…

Technology

Shulkin offers first glimpse at new VA Choice plan

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin offered the first glimpse of his plan to redesign the current Veterans Choice Program. He’s calling it the Veterans’…

Veterans Affairs

VA watchdogs: Results, responsibility needed for agency IT updates

Management

Leaders at the Veterans Affairs Department pledge to Congress that the money and time they’ve been given to help overhaul the agency’s IT systems will not be in vain.