About Us

The Mission

The CTO mission is to:

drive technology by user need and experience
be a model of technology management for the federal government
change culture around IT towards open source, Agile, and DevOps to benefit the business
realize fiscal and mission benefits of moving to the cloud
ensure FITARA compliance
support delivery of smaller projects through the GSA Digital Service.

The CTO office:

is where organizations will go to collaboratively define their business solutions
will review all program technical implementation and methods for investments
will guide appropriate projects through the Agile IT process to ensure that the GSA is making “small bets” with its budget
will provide GSA Digital Services support for User Experience (UX) and delivery in concert with Associate CIOs

Our goals are to:

make our IT investments Agile and move them to short, phased user-focused implementations
improve the user experience of our customers for the applications we build
Create a unified cloud solution for internal and external GSA customers
manage our technology strategy to enable innovation without chaos
bring together communities of practice around technology and techniques so GSA IT can share knowledge and make decisions about best practices together
open our data and our software
execute rapidly on low-cost solutions for self-contained projects