• Empowering Veterans with Low Vision and Blindness

     Feb. 23, 2024

    Empowering Veterans with Low Vision and Blindness

    The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Blind Rehabilitation Center illuminate a path for Veterans navigating vision loss with assistive technology, expert training, and unwavering support.

  • OIT Partners in Historic Agreement to Expand Veteran Care in Rural Areas

     Feb. 9, 2024

    OIT Partners in Historic Agreement to Expand Veteran Care in Rural Areas

    In what is being hailed as a historic agreement, the Cherokee Nation and Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System are opening a VA clinic inside the tribe's Vinita Health Center in early 2024, allowing for both tribal and non-tribal Veterans to be seen on tribal land.

  • Ensuring Data Security and Privacy Protection for Every Veteran We Serve

     Jan. 24, 2024

    Ensuring Data Security and Privacy Protection for Every Veteran We Serve

    VA proudly participates in Data Privacy Week (January 21-27, 2024) because its purpose — "to empower individuals and organizations to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust” — intersects with our own in many ways.

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  • OIT Achieving “Big Hairy Audacious Goals” with OKRs

     June 9, 2023

    OIT Achieving “Big Hairy Audacious Goals” with OKRs

    We intend to become the best IT organization in government. We’ll do it by putting the customer first, delivering high-quality products, and focusing relentlessly on operational excellence. With our OKRs, we’ve identified the principal tool we’ll use to realize this audacious goal.

  • VA’s API Platform: Seamless and Secure Access to VA Data for Veterans, Their Families, and Advocates

     May 31, 2023

    VA’s API Platform: Seamless and Secure Access to VA Data for Veterans, Their Families, and Advocates

    Learn about the creation of the VA Lighthouse Program, how VA develops Lighthouse APIs, how developers can access and use, and how VA is keeping up digitally.

  • Driving Engineering Excellence through Reliability and Availability

     May 30, 2023

    Driving Engineering Excellence through Reliability and Availability

    Our teams are working to maintain stable uptimes across the enterprise by reducing any outages to 52-minutes or less annually.

  • Trust in Cyberspace? Not on Our Watch

     May 30, 2023

    Trust in Cyberspace? Not on Our Watch

    As the nation’s largest integrated health and benefits organization, job one is protecting Veterans and the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA is adopting a Zero Trust Architecture to fight ever increasing cybersecurity threats to ensure our systems, networks, and data remain reliable, secure, and private.

  • Unlocking Inclusion: Enhancing Accessibility and 508 Compliance at VA

     May 18, 2023

    Unlocking Inclusion: Enhancing Accessibility and 508 Compliance at VA

    In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, learn how we are making great strides to improve accessibility for Veterans, caregivers, and VA staff.

  • Creating Career Pathways for Cyber Professionals

     March 31, 2023

    Creating Career Pathways for Cyber Professionals

    Learn how VA is leading changes in the Federal workplace to improve recruitment, development, and retention of a “tomorrow-ready” cyber workforce.