I bet the VA is very good about hiring veterans.
I bet the VA also goes out of its way to have good relations with the various veteran’s organizations.
Veteran’s organizations may therefore feel it is in their interest to protect the VA as an institution, instead of just looking out for what is best for veterans as a whole.
‘I bet the VA also goes out of its way to have good relations with the various veteran’s organizations.”
Not really, take their record of using Service Disabled veteran owned businesses. The VA uses a NASA contract for all of its IT contracts. They will not use a contract set up specifically for service disabled vet company’s.
Nor can new companies get on those existing NASA contracts.
As a Service Disabled Vet business owner the VA won’t even take the time to speak with me about alternatives. They will only tell you to call one of the companies on the NASA contract.
Very recently a new bill was proposed to allow the VA to open this up. It may get thru the system in a couple years.
The VA has a 7% spending goal for these companies and are not even close to meeting that requirement.