VAMOSA Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1]
In Committee
Summary
Department-wide software asset management policy would require the VA to create and run a single, department-level system to inventory, license, and control all software costs and use. It aims to reduce duplicate purchases, enforce license terms, and train staff to manage software contracts.
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- VA IT and acquisition staff must maintain a comprehensive inventory of software assets that covers licenses, subscriptions, accounts, deployments, and entitlements. They must take annual training and the Chief Information Officer must review the policy at least every three years.
- The Chief Information Officer must coordinate with other officials on significant software buys and adopt cost-effective licensing strategies, including enterprise agreements where practical. The policy requires matching inventories against purchase records, vendor billing, and contracts to find over‑procurement, redundant purchases, unauthorized use, and under‑utilized licenses.
- The Secretary must report yearly to Congress on substantive policy updates and estimated cost savings. The Comptroller General must submit a Government Accountability Office evaluation within three years and the policy terminates five years after enactment.
*Implementation must use existing personnel, systems, and funds and does not authorize additional appropriations.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
VA software asset management policy
This bill would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to have the CIO and other officials create and run a department-wide software asset management policy. The policy would keep a complete inventory of all software accounts, subscriptions, tenants, deployments, and license or usage entitlements. It would require checking interoperability and license restrictions, reconciling inventory to purchase, subscription, vendor billing, and contract records to find waste, duplication, or unauthorized use, and measuring and enforcing license compliance. The CIO would have to coordinate on significant software purchases and the VA would adopt cost-effective licensing, including enterprise agreements where practicable. The CIO would review and update the policy at least once every three years, the VA would provide annual training for staff who buy or manage software, and the rules would end five years after enactment. The policy must be implemented using existing personnel, systems, and funds and would not authorize new appropriations.
GAO report on VA software
The bill would require the Comptroller General to send Congress a report no later than three years after enactment. The report would evaluate how the VA implemented the new software asset policy, estimate cost savings and reduced duplication, and examine whether contractor support used for inventory or entitlement reconciliation kept operational independence and avoided conflicts of interest.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1]
SC • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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