Engineering Excellence

VA Platform One is a driving force in VA’s Office of Information Technology modernization efforts through containerization and automation.

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.

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.

VA Health and Benefits mobile app is approaching two million user downloads. This marks a celebratory moment and reminder of VA's commitment to providing Veterans user-friendly, all-in-one access to essential services and support.

OIT continues optimizing IT infrastructure to meet the needs of VA and the Veterans we serve, including implementing cloud initiatives for storage, computing, automation, and tiered storage, our continued cloud migration of key VA services will increase user access and product agility, from disaster recovery initiatives to improved telehealth capabilities.

VA makes incorporating robotic process automation into existing applications simple and easy, providing effective means for further IT modernization at VA.

The VA Lighthouse Developer Experience program establishes a CIO and CISO-approved ongoing authorization to operate, accelerating software development and enabling teams to ship authorized software 80% faster than average at VA.

On June 29, 2023, VA hosted the first DigitalVA Expo in Silicon Valley, showcasing its vision of a world-class digital experience for Veterans.

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.

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.

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

To address VA’s unique challenges and drive continuous improvement, VA has implemented several initiatives across the enterprise.