Agency for State Technology

The Agency for State Technology was established in 2014 by the Florida Legislature to oversee the state's essential technology projects and house Florida's Chief Information Officer. The agency will manage over $73 million per year in IT spending while maximizing resources, saving taxpayer dollars and delivering more efficient and effective constit... uent services in the Sunshine State. HB 7073 passed the House on March 12, 2014, and subsequently passed the Senate on May 2, 2014. The bill establishes an enterprise information technology (IT) governance structure within the executive branch and specifically: Creates the Agency for State Technology (AST) within the Department of Management Services (DMS) and establishes an executive director of the agency who is appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Establishes eleven other positions within the AST to include a deputy executive director, a chief planning officer, six strategic planning coordinators, a chief operations officer, a chief information security officer, and a chief technology officer. Authorizes a type two transfer of all records, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, administrative authority, administrative rules in chapters 71A-1 and 71A-2, Florida Administrative Code, pending issues, and existing contracts of the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology (AEIT} to the AST. Authorizes a type two transfer of the Northwood and Southwood Shared Resource Centers from the DMS to the AST and creates the State Data Center. Defines the duties and responsibilities of the AST to include: developing and implementing IT architecture standards, establishing IT project management and oversight standards, performing project oversight on IT projects with total costs of $10 million or more, except for cabinet agencies, performing project oversight on any cabinet agency IT project that impacts another agency and has a total project cost of $50 million or more, providing operational management and oversight of the state data center, ...Read More