Lawmakers Irritated with VA's Continuing Tech Problems

Nextgov: The 115th Congress hauled in leadership from the Veterans Affairs Department to discuss what’s become a very old problem for the agency tasked with taking care of those who served: information technology.

VA, with its history of failed large-scale IT projects that cost taxpayers billions of dollars, is again grappling with IT issues. This time, it isn’t a single program bleeding taxpayer dollars that is troubling Congress. Rather, it’s the agency’s aging IT systems, two of which are more than 50 years old, according to testimony from Dave Powner, director of IT management issues for the Government Accountability Office.

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