VA Awards $12 Billion For Tech Overhaul

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named 14 prime contractors for a sweeping $12 billion technology contract aimed at modernizing IT systems across the department.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Harris Corp. are among the big-name companies that have won awards under the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program, a five-year program aimed at charting the agency's long-term technology course by transforming a range of IT operations across the department.

However, the VA also has awarded seven of the 14 contracts to service-disabled veteran small businesses and veteran-owned small businesses as a way to provide opportunities to the veterans it services, the department said in a statement.

The department also will name one additional company for T4 once it resolves a dispute with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), according to the VA.