20. Department of Veterans Affairs · Minor
Establish an SES VHA Care System Chief Information Officer position
Printed page 647 20. Department of Veterans Affairs
“Establish a Senior Executive Service (SES) position of VHA Care System Chief Information Officer (CIO), selected by and reporting to the chief of the VHA Care System with a dotted line to the VA CIO.”
What has happened
- Not started
No VHA Care System Chief Information Officer position was created, at Senior Executive Service level or otherwise. VA announced a VHA management reorganization on 2025-12-15 whose stated aim is to strip out duplicative management layers rather than add posts, and said precise organizational and personnel changes would be announced in early 2026 and implemented over 18–24 months; no published change names a care-system CIO. The department’s IT leadership remains the VA Chief Information Officer in the Office of Information and Technology.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search, 2026-09-01: covered by the p. 646–648 cluster negative search in ch-20.md.
Item-specific checks: Corpus, every VA Federal Register notice since 2025-01-20 read by title —
the only SES-related items are two Corporate Senior Executive Management Office performance review
board notices (2025-10-24, 2025-11-24), which name board members and create no position.
news.va.gov press-release search chief information officer, reorganization, SES — the only
structural item is the 2025-12-15 VHA reorganization announcement
(https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-launches-veterans-health-administration-reorganization/),
recorded here as a lead because the precise changes it promises have not been published.
- Action
- create
- Object
- VHA Care System Chief Information Officer (SES position)
- ID
- 1773