IBM to modernize Veteran Affairs technology

IBM Inc. has been awarded a 10-year $123 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to replace the agency”™s 50-year-old human resources application.

The Armonk-based company will build, operate and maintain a new human resources system it said would allow the VA to better manage its workforce. The VA said it expects to reduce costs by integrating this new system.

IBM expects the new HR system to be implemented by the end of 2015. A phased deployment strategy will be initiated in January 2014 after successful completion of design, development and testing of the new HR application. IBM will provide implementation services, as well as management and maintenance services for the new system over the course of the contract.