Center for Information Technology

The Center for Information Technology (CIT) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that compose the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a cabinet-level department of the Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government. Originating in 1954 as a central processing facility in the NIH Office of the Director, the Division of Computer Research and Technology was established in 1964, merging in 1998 with the NIH Office of the CIO and the NIH Office of Research Services Telecommunications Branch to form a new organization, the CIT.

Mission

CIT's provides and manages information technology and advances computational scientific development. CIT supports NIH and other Federal research and management programs with administrative and scientific computing. In addition to providing bioinformatics support and scientific tools and resources, CIT provides enterprise technological and computational support for the NIH community; services include networking, telecommunications, application development and hosting services, technical support, computer training, IT acquisition, and IT security.

CIT's activities include the following:

  • engages in collaborative research and provides collaborative support to NIH investigators in the area of computational bioscience;
  • provides information systems and networking services;
  • provides scientific and administrative computing facilities;
  • identifies new computing technologies with application to biomedical research;
  • creates, purchases, and distributes software applications;
  • provides NIH staff with computing information, expertise, and training;
  • provides data-processing and computing facilities, integrated telecommunications data networks, and services to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other Federal agencies;
  • serves as a data center to HHS and other Federal agencies; and
  • develops, administers, and manages NIH systems and provides consulting services to NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs), in support of administrative and business applications.

History and organization

Key highlights of CIT are listed at the following link: http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/organization/CIT.htm#events

Past Directors

NameIn office fromTo
James King (Acting)N/AN/A
Dr. Eugene Harris (Acting)N/AAugust 1966
Dr. Arnold W. PrattAugust 1966May 1990
Dr. David RodbardNovember 1990April 1996
William L. Risso (Acting)April 1996March 1998
Alan S. GraeffMarch 1998November 2005
Dr. John F. Jones, Jr. (Acting)November 2005February 2011
Thomas G. Murphy (Acting)February 2011October 2011
Andrea T. NorrisOctober 2011Present

Past NIH CIOs

NameIn office fromTo
Alan S. GraeffMarch 1998November 2005
Dr. John F. Jones, Jr. (Acting)November 2005June 2008
Dr. John F. Jones, Jr. (Permanent)June 2008February 2011
Thomas G. Murphy (Acting)February 2011October 2011
Andrea T. Norris (Acting)October 2011August 2012
Andrea T. Norris (Permanent)August 2012Present

In January 2008, in an effort to foster efficiencies, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) was established in the NIH Office of the Director. The functions of the CIO, formerly part of NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT), were transferred from CIT to the new OCIO. OCIO develops IT-related strategy, services, and policy to ensure that all NIH IT infrastructure is benchmarked against industry standards. CIT functions as the operating arm of the CIO, providing IT expertise for OCIO program activities and providing enterprise IT services and research and administrative support to all of NIH.

The CIT Office of the Director (OD) plans, directs, coordinates, and evaluates the Center's programs, policies, and procedures and provides analysis and guidance in the development of systems for the use of IT techniques and equipment in support of NIH programs. The OD includes the Executive Office (EO), which provides CIT administrative and business management services in support of CIT programs. The EO provides oversight of CIT's administrative policies and procedures; provides financial management, including development and oversight of the CIT budget; advises on human resources planning and management; and performs strategic planning, operational planning, and performance measurement.

Office of the Director (OD)

ANDREA T. NORRIS Director, CIT; STACIE ALBOUM, Deputy Director, CIT; XAVIER SOOSAI, Director, IT Services; ANDY BAXEVANIS, Director of Computational Biology for the NIH Intramural Research Program; [1]

Office of the IT Services Management

  • Director: Xavier Soosai, MBA

The Office of IT Services Management[2] directs service areas that provide NIH with a variety of IT services such as user support, identity and access management, high-performance computing, and network cabling. The service areas are: Business Application Services;[3] Facilities and Infrastructure Support Services;[4] High Performance Computing Services;[5] Hosting and Storage Services;[6] Identity and Access Management Services;[7] IT Support Services;[8] Network Services;[9] Operations Management Services;[10] Service Desk Services;[11] and Unified Communication and Collaboration Services.[12]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/leadership
  2. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/about-cit
  3. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/business-application-services-bas
  4. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/facilities-and-infrastructure-support-services-fiss
  5. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/high-performance-computing-services-hpc
  6. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/service-area/hosting-and-storage-services-hss
  7. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/identity-and-access-management-services-iam
  8. ↑ https://www.cit.nih.gov/it-support-services-itss
  9. ↑ "Network Services (NS) | CIT".
  10. ↑ "Operations Management Services (OMS) | CIT".
  11. ↑ "Service Desk Services (SDS) | CIT".
  12. ↑ "Unified Communication and Collaboration Services (UCC) | CIT".

See also

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