Brilliant in 20 returns with its second episode, a conversation with Bob McDonald, former secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, about values-based leadership, trust, and culture.

But, he said, that will come with a brief pause to catch new leadership up to speed.

Streamlining the veterans information service reduced the number of callers waiting to talk to humans to almost zero, thanks to input from city innovators.

​The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded $22.3 billion across numerous contracts Tuesday for the technical support service, program management and infrastructure development behind its MyVA transformation.

Lawmakers worried Wednesday that the Department of Veterans Affairs' requested spending cutback for its health IT modernization project is a sign that the department is still struggling to make meaningful progress toward interoperability with the Defense Department's electronic health records.

​The Department of Veterans Affairs and its employees are responsible for the development of some of humankind's most notable medical innovations — implantable pacemakers, nicotine patches and the first successful liver transplants, to name a few. To continue driving those types of medical breakthroughs, the VA launched the Innovators Network.