Kadakia served as VA's chief cloud strategist after a brief stint as the agency's CISO.

Dominic Cussatt, an executive of the VA Office of Information and Technology's Enterprise Cybersecurity Strategy team, will serve as acting CISO as Roopangi Kadakia assumes a new role as cloud implementation expert in the EMPO.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will get a new chief information security officer — a federal IT veteran who has worked in information security at NASA, the Department of Homeland Security and the International Finance Corporation.