Center For Information Technology - Mission

Mission

CIT's mission is to provide, coordinate, and manage information technology and to advance computational science. CIT supports NIH and other Federal research and management programs with efficient, cost-effective administrative and high-powered 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 efficient, cost-effective information systems and networking services;
• provides state-of-the-art scientific and administrative computing facilities;
• identifies new computing technologies with innovative applications to biomedical research;
• creates, purchases, and distributes software applications;
• provides NIH staff with computing information, expertise, and training;
• provides data-processing and high-performance 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.