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Pioneering the Future: VA’s AI Use Case Inventory
The new VA AI Use Case Inventory showcases the growing role of AI in transforming Veteran services and reflects VA's commitment to responsible AI use.

Published On: December 30th, 2024 | 4.1 min read |

March 14, 2024

2 million Downloads: VA Health and Benefits Mobile App
Technologists celebrate a milestone moment as the VA Health and Benefits mobile app reaches more than 2 million user downloads — demonstrating Veterans are embracing the tool to access their VA services from mobile devices.
March 14, 2024

Spotlighting OIT’s Women in Tech
Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about the women in OIT leading VA’s digital transformation.
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.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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