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Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A bipartisan, bicameral legislative proposal would force the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide answers about a delayed redesign ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it rolled out an updated registry of veterans’ exposure to burn pits and ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --The Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday launched an anxiously awaited redesign and expansion of its Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry, established 10 years ago to ...

The registry of people exposed to toxic fumes while serving in the U.S. military is now automatically including those who deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan or any of the Middle Eastern, African and Asian ...

The Veterans Affair’s Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry allows eligible Veterans and Service members to document their exposures and report health concerns through an online questionnaire.

(AP) J.D. Williams didn’t think much about the smoke cloud that often shrouded his air base in Iraq. Not when it covered everything he owned with black soot or when his wheezing and coughing made it ...

In response to concerns over possible adverse effects of exposures to emissions from open burn pits used in Southwest Asia military operations, Congress passed PL 112-260, §201, which directed the ...

A bipartisan, bicameral legislative proposal would force the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide answers about a delayed redesign of its database of veterans’ exposure to burn pits and other ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it rolled out an updated registry of veterans’ exposure to burn pits and other toxic substances while on active service, a move that came ...