The Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling to staff positions that call for artificial intelligence talent due to the current continuing resolution in Congress, agency officials said Thursday.
During a press conference after the agency’s monthly LinkedIn Live series, #TalkingTech, Chief Information Officer Kurt DelBene and Chief Technology Officer Charles Worthington reported that the VA Office of Information Technology has “line of sight” to hire “multiple hundreds of people,” including those with AI capabilities to work with the emerging technology, but are unable to do so because of the current challenges posed by Congress’s failure to pass a long-term budget…
During the event, Worthington said that the agency is going to try to scale its use of AI with the help of the VA’s National AI Institutes, which has been considering how the agency can responsibly adopt the emerging tech inside of the health care domain…
Source: VA struggles to bring on AI talent without a long-term budget from Congress. By Caroline Nihill, January 19, 2024. FedScoop.
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