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IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements

GAO-25-107041
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the department CIO to work with OMB to ensure that annual reviews of their IT portfolio are conducted in conjunction with the Federal CIO and the Chief Operating Officer or Deputy Secretary (or equivalent), as prescribed by FITARA. (Recommendation 34)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Cloud Computing: Selected Agencies Need to Implement Updated Guidance for Managing Restrictive Licenses

GAO-25-107114
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should assign and document responsibility for identifying and managing potential impacts of restrictive software licensing practices across the department. (Recommendation 6)
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Cloud Computing: Selected Agencies Need to Implement Updated Guidance for Managing Restrictive Licenses

GAO-25-107114
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should update and implement guidance to fully address identifying, analyzing, and mitigating the impacts of restrictive software licensing practices on cloud computing efforts. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

VA Acquisition Management: Additional Actions Needed in Serving Veterans with Sleep Apnea

GAO-24-107010
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, in coordination with the National Acquisition Center and the National Sleep Medicine Office, develops a set of metrics and corresponding objectives to track initiative performance with appropriate, reliable data sources, and routinely shares this information with other relevant stakeholders. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Biomedical Research: Improvements Needed to the Quality of Information About DOD and VA Contributions to Drug Development

GAO-24-107061
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Veterans Affairs The Under Secretary of Health at VA should direct ORD to take steps to better ensure that VA investigators conducting ORD-funded clinical trials submit results to ClinicalTrials.gov within 1 year of the primary completion date. Such steps could include improving procedures for notifying VA investigators of the trial result submission deadlines and collecting and analyzing data to determine how to address factors causing delays. (Recommendation 3)
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VA concurred with the recommendation. In its written comments included in the report, VA stated ORD will focus on the subset of clinical trials that are not subject to legal result reporting requirements but are expected to adhere to VA's ethically based reporting requirements; will expend additional additional resources to collect and analyze data to determine what factors are contributing to delays in result reporting for these trials; and will develop and implement strategies to better ensure timely results reporting to ClinicalTrials.gov specifically for these trials. When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Cloud Computing: Agencies Need to Address Key OMB Procurement Requirements

GAO-24-106137
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the CIO of VA develops guidance to require that contracts affecting the agency's HVAs that are managed and operated in the cloud include language that provides the agency with continuous visibility of the asset. (Recommendation 27)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the CIO of VA updates guidance to put a SLA in place with every vendor when a cloud solution is deployed. The guidance should include language that addresses OMB's required elements for SLAs, including: continuous awareness of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its assets; a detailed description of roles and responsibilities; and clear performance metrics. (Recommendation 25)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the CIO of VA updates its existing contracts for HVAs that are managed and operated in the cloud to meet OMB's requirement once guidance from the CIO Council is available on language that provides the agency with continuous visibility of the asset. If modifying the existing contract is not practical, the agency should incorporate language into the contract that will meet OMB's requirement upon option exercise or issuance of a new award. (Recommendation 28)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Veterans Community Care Program: VA Needs to Strengthen Contract Oversight

GAO-24-106390
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Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure that the Assistant Under Secretary for Health for IVC develops a formal lessons learned process, consistent with leading practices, for the Community Care contracts to inform VA's plans for the next set of contracts and its continuing oversight efforts. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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