gta.ga.gov

The Georgia Technology Authority seeks to ensure that the state’s IT infrastructure is stable, secure and well-governed, and provides Georgians with the services they need and expect.

More specifically, GTA:

• Manages the state’s IT infrastructure — data center, network and telecommunications services and security
• Establishes policies, standards and guidelines for state IT
• Promotes an enterprise approach to state IT
• Develops and manages the state portal, georgia.gov

GTA's statutory responsibilities also encompass:

• Technology enterprise management — methods for managing technology resources for state agencies; resources include data centers, servers, mainframes, PCs and laptops, wide and local area networks, telecommunications and technology personnel
• Technology portfolio management — approaches for analyzing and ranking the state’s technology investments

Looking to the future

In late 2007, Governor Sonny Perdue directed GTA to proceed with a plan to transform state government’s IT operations.  Called GAIT 2010 (Georgia Infrastructure Transformation), the plan calls for consolidating IT infrastructure and moving both infrastructure and telecommunications delivery to external service providers.

GTA has restructured to enable the organization to work as effectively as possible.  A corporate layer is responsible for government and agency relationships and reporting.  It includes:

• Budgeting and Finance
• Enterprise Governance and Planning - Responsible for supporting agencies in doing a better job of governing their IT initiatives, and gathering IT metrics from agencies and reporting them to state leaders.  It includes the offices of Enterprise Information Security; Enterprise Policy, Standards and Architecture; Enterprise Strategic Planning; and Enterprise Program and Project Management.