House Veterans Affairs Committee Archives

Kurt DelBene speaks at a public meeting of the Defense Innovation Board in Austin, Texas March 5, 2020. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

VA hires unnamed senior executive to clean up website benefits issues

During a House Veterans' Affairs subcommittee hearing on VA.gov, VA CIO Kurt DelBene couldn’t name the newly hired executive charged with fixing website issues when asked to.

Dec 4, 2023 By Nihal Krishan

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough testifies during a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, December 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

VA still has ‘significant concerns’ as Oracle works to get EHR modernization back on track

Oracle Cerner did not send a representative to the hearing despite being invited to.

Nov 15, 2023 By Nihal Krishan

The US Department of Veterans Affairs building is seen in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Alastair Pike / AFP)

VA failed to properly process 56,000 dependent claims due to major website issues stemming back to 2011

The issue was caused by VA.gov processing errors, according to an internal investigation.

Sep 27, 2023 By Nihal Krishan

Department of Veterans Affairs — (Veterans Health / Flickr)

VA watchdog identifies missing approval records for $661.4M in IT contracts

Missing records were identified through an audit of IT contracts signed between fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2021.

Apr 3, 2023 By John Hewitt Jones