Exclusive: Former IRS CIO named to VA post
November 07, 2013 · 1:15 pm Former Internal Revenue Service Chief Information Officer Arthur L. Gonzalez has returned to government service and has been appointed deputy CIO for service, delivery and engineering at the Department of Veterans Affairs, FedScoop has learned. Gonzalez, who spent five years at the IRS, most recently served as senior vice president and CIO of TISTA Science and Technology Corp., a service-disabled veteran-owned business based in Rockville, Md., that just a month earlier had received a $25 million VA contract for financial auditing services.
Stephen “Steph” Warren, CIO, Dept. of Veterans Affairs.New VA CIO comes under microscope amid allegations of cronyism, mismanagement
November 04, 2013 · 12:00 pm Stephen Warren, the new chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is coming under increasing scrutiny as Congress seeks answers to hundreds of questions about the agency’s IT security protections. A spokesperson for VA confirmed to FedScoop that since Oct. 23, the agency has received nearly 400 questions from the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which has launched a sustained inquiry into VA IT security protections in the aftermath of a series of hacker intrusions in 2010 by at least nine nation state-supported hacker groups.
VA scrambling to address congressional concerns about IT security
October 31, 2013 · 11:57 am Congress has given the Department of Veterans Affairs until Nov. 6 to answer more than two dozen questions about the agency’s IT security posture and plans, as part of a continuing investigation into massive, state-sponsored data breaches that may have put at risk the private information of millions of veterans and their family members. The House Committee on Veterans Affairs on Oct. 23 sent a detailed list of 27 questions to VA demanding a mix of simple yes or no answers to questions about the agency’s IT security protections, as well as supporting documentation. The list of questions, obtained by FedScoop, also outline statutory requirements and National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines under which the agency is either required or expected to ensure certain levels of security protections. 
