Agency deep dive · 06
The Department of Veterans Affairs
The VA is the largest civilian department in the federal government — a $134.6 billion FY2026 discretionary request — and the overwhelming majority of it does one thing: run the country's largest integrated health system.
A medical center is a campus. It has boilers, wastewater, elevators, grounds, kitchens and laboratories, and every one of those needs a contractor. That is the part of the VA a small vendor can actually reach: not clinical care, but the utilities and environmental compliance that keep a hospital licensed and running. XL Eagle's VA work is exactly that — permitted-discharge wastewater sampling at a medical center.
How Veterans Affairs is organized
The VA is three administrations, and one of them is almost the whole budget.
Where the money is
The VA's FY2026 discretionary request is $134.6 billion — the largest civilian department in this series:
- Figures are the FY2026 President's Budget request in discretionary budget authority, the same basis used across this series.
- The VA's total budget including mandatory benefits payments is substantially larger than the discretionary figure shown; benefits are not contracted work.
- Defense is excluded from the chart; at $961.6B it would compress every department shown into an unreadable sliver.
Where we have delivered
One VA award, environmental compliance at a medical center.
Wastewater sampling and testing
Collection of wastewater samples at a medical center's permitted discharge point, analysis by a NELAC-accredited laboratory and reporting of results to the VA. XL Eagle furnishes all labor, transport, tools and equipment.
St. Cloud VA Medical Center · Minnesota · awarded
The administrations, and what they buy
| Administration | What it does | What it typically buys |
|---|---|---|
| Veterans Health AdministrationVHA | The largest integrated health system in the country — roughly 170 medical centers plus over a thousand outpatient sites. | Facility and utility maintenance, environmental compliance and testing, laboratory services, medical equipment and servicing, grounds and food services. |
| Veterans Benefits AdministrationVBA | Administers disability compensation, pensions, education and home loan benefits. | Records management and scanning, IT systems, office facility services, call center support. |
| National Cemetery AdministrationNCA | Operates the national cemetery system. | Grounds maintenance, headstone setting, interment services, irrigation and landscaping, construction. |
| Office of Information and TechnologyOIT | Runs VA's IT infrastructure and the electronic health record program. | Hardware, network services, software development and support, cybersecurity. |
| Office of Construction and Facilities ManagementCFM | Delivers major VA construction and leases. | Design and construction, commissioning, project management, environmental studies. |
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