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USA Today – No system is perfect. The huge majority of the 156,000 workers who received awards — many veterans themselves — put veterans first. Unfortunately, these hard-working people are [...]

The Hill – VA Secretary Bob McDonald, writing in USA Today on Tuesday, said the performance awards help the agency “retain top talent. VA competes for workers from the public and private [...]

The Washington Post – The Department of Veterans Affairs will unveil a wide-reaching plan to Congress Wednesday to merge its unwieldy networks of private doctors, an acknowledgement that [...]

Military Times – The nominee to take over the long-vacant inspector general post at the Veterans Affairs Department promised that if confirmed, he would make management accountability and [...]

Marine Corps Times – They want to give veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan a place where they can reflect on war’s wounds — seen and unseen — reunite with battle buddies; it would be a [...]

Times Leader – Senator Bob Casey wants to move the Veterans Disability Claim system into the 21st century. With the average disability claim languishing in the system for 129 days, Casey, [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer – Von Wiggins laughed at the small troubles he got into back in his Army days. “One time I was hanging around the female barracks [at Fort Meade] and I [...]

The New York Times – Veterans’ hospitals and clinics are beefing up staff and seeing more patients, but the number of appointments not completed within 30 days continues to grow, [...]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – A new survey of 23,000 injured service members finds post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury are two of the biggest mental health issues [...]

ExecutiveGov.com – Robert McDonald, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, has said VA will develop a new information technology system for agency personnel to centralize [...]