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.
Responsibilities
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
Goals
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