The Washington Post's Carol D. Leonnig reports that federal agencies have combined to give about $5 billion in government contracts set aside for small businesses to actually very, very big businesses. Corporate giants like Lockheed Martin and SAIC are getting million in contracts from agencies like the Dept. of ...

The Dept. of Veterans Affairs is again under fire for not confronting the mental illnesses of returning U.S. troops. Norma Perez, who leads the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder program at a Texas Veterans Affairs hospital, told her staff to avoid giving PTSD diagnoses to Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers. Perez instead suggested ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs, under fire for not responding to the high rate of suicides among military veterans, has instituted a nationwide hotline that has fielded nearly 40,000 phone calls and sent out more than 700 emergency responders to deal with suicidal vets since August 2007.  Patricia Cohen writes ...

Happy New Fiscal Year.  And speaking of fiscal, let’s get things off with a bang, shall we?

At the Veteran Affairs (VA) Department these days, few folks are taking lightly the usually excruciatingly boring green eye shade aspects of the budgeting process.

Many view the budget process as ...