Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development (original) (raw)

The Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development (ORD) is the research and development agency of the Veterans Health Administration in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The department focuses on biomedical and health care research for the care of veterans and wounded soldiers, and has a budget of 1.018billionintherequested2012budget,inadditionto1.018 billion in the requested 2012 budget, in addition to 1.018billionintherequested2012budget,inadditionto710 million derived from federal and non-federal grants from other agencies. The office has existed since about 1925.