“Many of the members of the House Veterans Affairs Technology Modernization Subcommittee are relatively new to Congress, but it didn’t take them long to recognize a series of ongoing, reoccurring themes with the state of IT at the Department of Veterans Affairs.”
“Management of legacy IT systems are taking up too much time and resources, even as the list of new priorities and congressionally-driven initiatives that require an IT upgrade from VA grows ever longer.”
“Operation and maintenance for the department’s legacy systems comprises more than 80 percent of VA’s IT spend, and that number is creeping upward…”
“Specifically, Banks, as well as the Government Accountability Office, wants to see VA devote more of its time, money and personnel toward the long list of new programs and capabilities that it’s been tasked to develop.”
“But the department, at least until this point, has been ill-prepared to make this pivot, especially with an IT shop that still faces a myriad of challenges…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA’s legacy IT spend is going up, even as growing list of new projects call for tech upgrades – By Nicole Ogrysko, April 2, 2019. Federal News Network.
