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Washington, DC-based United-States-Department-of-Veterans-Affairs Appointed Martin Pellum as Director, Talent Assessment, Healthcare Leadership Talent Institute
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was established on March 15, 1989, succeeding the Veterans Administration. It is responsible for providing federal benefits to veterans and their families. Headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VA is the second-largest of the Cabinet departments and operates nationwide programs for health care, financial assistance and burial benefits. Of the 22.2 million veterans currently alive, nearly three-quarters served during a war or an official period of conflict. About a quarter of the nation`s population is potentially eligible for VA benefits and services because they are veterans, family members or survivors of veterans. The responsibility to care for veterans, spouses, survivors and dependents can last a long time. Two children of Civil War veterans still draw VA benefits. About 184 children and widows of Spanish-American War veterans still receive VA compensation or pensions. VA`s fiscal year 2013 spending is projected to be approximately $140 billion, including almost $64 billion in discretionary resources and nearly $76.4 billion in mandatory funding. The discretionary budget request represents an increase of $2.7 billion, or nearly 4.5 percent, over the 2012 enacted level.
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Marty Pellum joined the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in January 2011 following a career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and senior leader with the Central Intelligence Agency. He served as the VHA manager for all of VHA’s workforce development programs until May 2015 when he was detailed to a task force charged with standing up a talent management system for VHA. Once the Healthcare Leadership Talent Institute (HLTI) was established in February 2016, he was designated the Program Director for the Talent Planning and Assessment function and was immediately appointed as the HLTI Acting Director. The HLTI integrates VHA’s workforce planning and leader development efforts around a comprehensive talent assessment and review process, modeled after the best practices in talent management in corporate America, in order to identify and develop a strong succession pipeline of leaders for executive positions.
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