S. 731 would change how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) manages information technology (IT) projects. Specifically, the bill would:
• Require that all VA IT projects be managed by interdisciplinary teams that meet a specific list of qualifications,
• Increase requirements for reporting deviations in the cost and schedule of IT projects; and,
• Require VA to provide additional information on unfunded IT projects in its annual budget submission, as well as other reporting requirements.
For this estimate, CBO assumes that S. 731 will be enacted in the middle of fiscal year 2022.
