Virginia technology officials are using a bold contracting approach to turn over the state's information technology infrastructure to the private sector. Armed with a law passed by the state ...

Photo: George Coulter, who became Virginia CIO on Aug. 20, 2009. For the second time in less than two months, a major state IT outsourcing initiative is the target of a critical state auditor's report ...

On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, announced that he had reached a compromise with John McCain and other Senate Republicans on how to fix whatever it ...

Imagine being at the end of your rope and you're calling a suicide hotline and you get put on hold. Or you finally get a person to help and it's someone who may have a thick accent and be difficult to ...

Virginia says it has an answer, one that could serve as a model for other states. Virginia last week became the first state to hand over the bulk of its IT operations to one vendor through a 10-year ...

Saying poor data made outsourcing seem less cost-effective than it is, the Veterans Affairs Department is reworking a report to Congress on outsourcing decisions made by the Veterans Health ...

When I ran into Virginia Gov. Mark Warner (D) earlier this year at the National Governors Association headquarters in Washington, I pulled him aside for a quick chat. I wanted to gauge how serious he ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who sits on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, blasted the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for outsourcing its suicide line. In an interview broadcast ...

The medical system charged with caring for Maryland's veterans is seeking help from private physicians in the Baltimore region to address a primary-care backlog that has become one of the worst in the ...