• OCTO Leaders Win Industry Awards

    Office of Information and Technology leaders were recently honored with the 2024 FORUM Impact Awards, the FedScoop 50 Awards, the Washingtonian Magazine Tech Titans Awards, and the 2024 GOVTECH CONNECTS Digital Health Transformation Awards for their innovative leadership in advancing mission-oriented IT programs.

    Published On: December 5th, 2024 | 1.9 min read |
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  • VA Recognizes National Slam the Scam Day

     March 6, 2024

    VA Recognizes National Slam the Scam Day

    VA recognizes National Slam the Scam Day, an initiative to raise awareness on how to combat Social Security-related scams.

  • Digital Defense: Empowering Veterans Against Smishing Threats

     Feb. 26, 2024

    Digital Defense: Empowering Veterans Against Smishing Threats

    The VA Privacy Service encourages Veterans to use best practices to spot, prevent, and report smishing scams.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • VA Partnerships Attract Top Industry Talent to Careers in Public Service

     March 28, 2023

    VA Partnerships Attract Top Industry Talent to Careers in Public Service

    Partnerships with Presidential Innovation Fellows and the U.S. Digital Service act as a bridge for VA recruitment of future innovators and technology leaders