{"id":58110,"date":"2026-06-01T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/58110\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:18:08","slug":"va-seeks-information-on-new-ai-interface-and-api-for-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/58110\/","title":{"rendered":"VA seeks information on new AI interface and API for workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Veterans Affairs Department is requesting information about front and back-end-based artificial intelligence for its next phase of AI deployment, according to contracting documents<\/a> posted Friday and updated Monday.<\/p>\n

Specifically seeking a new user interface and API services to large language models, the document said the potential acquisition would expand AI access across the VA\u2019s workforce and support assistive, collaborative and agentic AI capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cVA is committed to harnessing AI to improve Veterans\u2019 lives, delivering faster, higher-quality, and more cost-efficient services, while upholding the highest standards of safety, security, and equity,\u201d the RFI said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The department wants to expand its current AI offerings with a direct contractual relationship for commercially available tools with usage-based pricing while complying with security requirements for sensitive information.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy deploying commercially available AI platforms from U.S.-based Frontier AI Labs at scale across one of the federal government\u2019s largest workforces, VA contributes to the national objective of demonstrating that American AI leadership translates into measurable improvements in public services,\u201d the RFI said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The document detailed how three employees could potentially find value in assistive, collaborative and agentic AI uses: a knowledge worker, like an oncology clinician, could use the tool to look up drug interactions, summarize patient history or generate take-home materials. An operator, like a housing services manager, could summarize regulations, map local housing resource availability, and process referrals. Or, an engineer or quantitative analyst could use it for coding help or build test cases.<\/p>\n

But the VA \u201crecognizes that software alone is insufficient to apply AI to high-impact internal and external services, at scale, safely and responsibly,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The department is also looking for AI literacy and safety products to accompany the AI, as well as potentially placing AI engineers and data scientists embedded within VA operations and environments.<\/p>\n

\u201cVA is building enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to support the full spectrum of AI interaction, from assistive to collaborative to agentic, spanning compute, foundation models, data integration, orchestration, and user-facing surfaces, with governance embedded at every layer,\u201d the document said.<\/p>\n

In addition, the RFI contained an update on the department\u2019s AI usage.<\/a><\/p>\n

VA GPT<\/a>, the in-house generative AI chat tool co-developed with Microsoft, has had 95,000 sign-ups to date since its launch last year and has over 5,500 daily users as of Wednesday, it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the healthcare side, there was a measurable 22% decrease in mortality associated with the implementation of an AI-assisted clinical decision support tool, and a 21% increase in adenoma detection with AI-powered colonoscopy devices, the document said.<\/p>\n

The VA also currently uses<\/a> Microsoft Copilot and has OneGov licenses for Anthropic\u2019s Claude for Government, Google\u2019s Gemini for Government and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT Enterprise FedRAMP. It also has LLM API services through VA Enterprise Cloud, including AWS Government, Azure Government and Azure Commercial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The VA said there is more to come and welcomes \u201cconstructive feedback\u201d on its plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cVA is actively piloting tools from multiple Frontier AI Labs to evaluate user experience, performance, and value at enterprise scale,\u201d the document said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is no incumbent contractor for this effort, and the deadline to respond to the RFI is June 9.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tWritten by K. Sophie Will
\n\t\t\tK. Sophie Will is a reporter at FedScoop. Previously, she was an investigative data reporter at Bloomberg Industry Group. An award-winning journalist and Utah native, she graduated from Boston University and formerly worked with CQ Roll Call, the Utah Investigative Journalism Project, the Deseret News, USA Today, Reuters, HuffPost, WGBH, and more. Reach her on Signal at ksophiewill.66 or by phone at 617-888-0900.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Veterans Affairs Department is requesting information about front and back-end-based artificial intelligence for its next phase of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,7493,8943,53,8540,111,322,28201,580,182,30238,33748,28203,132,33749,320,28204,7852,7339,157,33750,33751,270],"class_list":["post-58110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","tag-agentic-enterprise","tag-anthropic","tag-api","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-aws","tag-aws-govcloud","tag-chatgpt","tag-claude","tag-frontier-ai-labs","tag-gemini-for-government","tag-general-services-administration-gsa","tag-google","tag-government-contracting","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-azure-government","tag-microsoft-copilot","tag-onegov","tag-openai","tag-va-enterprise-cloud","tag-va-gpt","tag-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}