VA Employees to Test Mobile Access to Information Networks Via Tablets, Smartphones

The Veterans Affairs Department is expected to launch a test program next week that would permit as many as 1,000 VA employees to use mobile smartphone and tablet devices to access the VA's information network, according to comments made by VA's Roger Baker, reported by Federal News Radio.

Baker, VA's assistant secretary for information technology and chief information officer, explained that employees will have to demonstrate a genuine business need for the mobile devices. As part of the program, VA is prepared to issue up to 1,000 smartphone and tablet devices to qualifying employees, although the exact source of funding is still being hammered out, the report said...