“The Veterans Affairs Department suffers from “fundamental management weaknesses and is one of the most challenged in the federal government,” Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told a Senate panel on Wednesday.”
“Leadership instability, high-level vacancies and a lack of accountability are all problems at the sprawling, decentralized VA, which appears three times on the newly released biennial list of high-risk programs compiled by the Government Accountability Office.”
“VA Secretary Robert Wilkie “has a plan but there’s not a lot of detail” for implementing GAO recommendations in such areas as the department’s outdated procurement system that relies too heavily on expensive emergency procurements, Dodaro said…”
“This year GAO added two new program areas to the risk list: the governmentwide personnel security clearance process and VA’s acquisition management. Two other program areas showed enough improvement to be removed: mitigating gaps in weather satellite data and the Defense Department’s supply chain management…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Procurement and Security Clearance Processing Land on GAO’s High-Risk List – By Charles Clark, March 6, 2019. Government Executive.
