WASHINGTON: The Department of Veterans Affairs is rebranding one of its most high-profile offices, the VA Innovation Initiative (VAI2), to The Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation.

The rebranding will take place this fall with the goal of showing that the federal agency is always searching for innovative ideas, something the word “initiative” does not convey, said Jonah Czerwinski, director of the unit.

With the change, “comes the burden of increasing awareness among the VA workforce and the stakeholders in ...