VA shrinks IT workforce by 12%, redirects tech funding to other priorities

The Department of Veterans Affairs is shrinking its IT workforce and redirecting a portion of its technology budget to cover costs elsewhere.

The VA’s fiscal 2026 budget request would spend $7.3 billion on IT systems, a nearly $300 million decrease from current spending levels. The budget request would also pause the procurement of new IT systems until VA can conduct a full review of them.

More than 1,000 employees with the VA’s Office of Information and Technology have accepted voluntary separation incentives and will leave the department at the end of this year. Those departures will result in a nearly 12% cut to the VA’s IT workforce.

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