“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is turning to emerging technologies like cloud, automation and robotic process automation (RPA) to modernize its human capital IT systems amid a 25% projected hiring surge.”
“Fully implemented in 2016, the VA’s current solution called HR Smart is an Oracle-based platform that manages personnel data and processes across all of VA, including the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans Benefits Administration. According to a draft performance work statement outlining VA’s desire to acquire new technology that integrates with and modernizes this system as well the Enterprise Performance Management System, it accommodates about 1 million transactions from 6,300 managers across HR servicing offices each year.”
“Additionally, the agency is projecting a 3% per year increase in its workforce that will necessitate modernized workflows, interoperability and increased data retention.”
“’We need modern human capital management solutions that are agile in order to keep up with constantly changing human resource regulatory and policy environment, while ensuring great user experiences for all users,’ said VA Center for Enterprise Human Resources Information Services (CEHRIS) Executive Director Joseph Thele at an industry day last month.”
“Thele outlined five key priorities for this HR system modernization effort:
- Provide enterprise-wide, cost effective, standardized and interoperable HR Solutions to support the strategic management of human capital
- Capitalize on existing HR system capabilities to supply new, innovative core and non-core solutions between shared service resources
- Acquire and implement systems that meet stakeholder needs, recommendations and expectations
- Implement VA HR enterprise-wide data standards for efficient and reliable data exchange
- Execute an end-to-end system comprised of one or more interconnected applications designed to capture HR data once, and for that data to move in concert with employees throughout the entire HR lifecycle…” Read more here.
Source: VA Takes on Human Capital IT Modernization – By Sarah Sybert, April 20, 2022. GovCIO.
