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Veterans Affairs leaders on Monday announced the next 13 sites to receive the department’s embattled new electronic health records system, including multiple facilities in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The sites were chosen after VA Secretary Doug Collins earlier this month announced plans to accelerate deployment of the Oracle Millennium system, currently in operation at six of VA’s 170-plus medica...[Read More]

Veterans Affairs leaders will ask for $6.6 billion extra in funding for fiscal 2025 to cover the anticipated increased cost of care and benefits over the next 10 months, down significantly from their initial $12 billion request. Lawmakers were informed of the new budget request Monday. VA Under Secretary for Health Dr. Shereef Elnahal said if lawmakers don’t approve the extra funding by the end of...[Read More]

Veterans Affairs officials will require thousands of department staffers to return to in-office work by the end of February, part of a government-wide effort to eliminate remote duty assignments launched during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 20% of VA’s 479,000 employees — nearly 96,000 individuals — currently have full-time or part-time telework arrangements, according to the department. It was not...[Read More]

Veterans Affairs officials will require thousands of department staffers to return to in-office work by the end of February, part of a government-wide effort to eliminate remote duty assignments launched during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 20% of VA’s 479,000 employees — nearly 96,000 individuals — currently have full-time or part-time telework arrangements, according to the department. It was not...[Read More]

President Donald Trump’s Friday night firing of 17 inspectors general — including the top watchdogs for the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs — has left the future work of the offices uncertain and outside advocates fearing a lack of accountability at key government agencies in months to come. Officials from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency have questione...[Read More]

Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with National Guard troops at Washington’s Union Station on Wednesday, while protesters booed at the two leaders and chanted “free D.C.” Vance told reporters that he had come to pass out a few burgers to the troops and responded to the chants with, “Let’s free Washington, D.C. from lawlessness.” He added that he believed crime statisti...[Read More]

VAQ-133 returns from a five-month deployment as the first Navy squadron to tactically employ the ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer.

The 990-foot SS United States served as a geographical marker of sorts on the Delaware River waterfront in South Philadelphia for almost 30 years.

TUCSON, Ariz. – Airborne Command & Control Squadron (VAW) 123 transferred two of their four E-2C Hawkeye aircraft to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the largest aircraft boneyard in the world in Tucson, in September.

Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence thinks that department leaders have a solid relationship with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, despite what you’ve heard. “The public perception, I don’t think, is exactly accurate,” he said in an exclusive interview with Military Times this week. “Veterans issues are bipartisan. Even when I met with Democratic senators through my confirmation process, it ...[Read More]

As the nation celebrates the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Veterans Affairs officials have added about 210,000 names of veterans killed or lost overseas — including about 93,000 WWII veterans — to the department’s expanding online memorial project. The Veterans Legacy Memorial was launched in 2019 and creates websites recognizing the lives of deceased veterans, allowing re...[Read More]

Nineteen House and Senate races this cycle will feature two veterans vying against each other for a seat in Congress. In several cases, the results could determine which party controls either chamber next year. Here are several of the most competitive vet-versus-vet contests, and a closer look at the candidates involved: Here are all the veterans running for Congress in 2024 Virginia 2nd House Dis...[Read More]