Department of Veterans Affairs

Department of Veterans Affairs - Wed September 01, 2021

VA, USACE Announce Contract for New $840M Louisville Medical Center

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District, will build a new 104 bed, full-service hospital in Louisville, Ky. An $840 million contract was awarded to Walsh-Turner Joint Venture II headquartered in Chicago, Ill., on Aug....

Mon May 14, 2018

Nearly $700M Available for State Veterans Home Funding

Recently the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it will use $685 million in funding from Congress to fund several State Veterans Home construction projects through the VA State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program....

Jennifer Rupp – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 09, 2018

New Resting Place for Colorado Veterans

Pikes Peak National Cemetery is a new 374-acre Veterans national cemetery in the southeast portion of Colorado Springs. The cemetery will serve the burial needs of more than 95,000 Veterans and their spouses in the cemetery's service area for the next 100 years....

Wed August 16, 2017

Feds Fund Hawaii Military Projects

On July 13, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), ranking member of the Senate Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, worked to include $266.3 million for military construction and upgrade projects across Hawaii and $78.4 billion that will benefit veterans' programs, including those in Hawaii....