Arizona’s Chief Information Officer Chad Kirkpatrick Announces
Arizona’s FY 2010 Statewide Strategic IT Plan

PHOENIX – Chad Kirkpatrick, Arizona State Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of the Government Information Technology Agency (GITA) announced today the release of Arizona’s FY 2010 Statewide Strategic IT Plan with an emphasis on providing even better customer service to Arizona’s citizens while increasing efficiency and savings to Arizona’s taxpayers.

“The vision set forth in this Strategic Plan will help the state deal with the current challenges.”
State CIO Chad Kirkpatrick said. “We are committed to building a better future for Arizona families and businesses. The Statewide Information Technology Strategic Plan is the roadmap for using technology to provide better government services while protecting taxpayer dollars.”

The five highest priority IT goals for FY 2010 that emerged from this process are:

Efficiency and Cost Savings
Security and Privacy
Standardization and Reuse
Project Lifecycles and Development
Transparency of Government

Director Chad Kirkpatrick noted that the plan provides for, “Efficiency and cost savings efforts, including negotiating more cost effective vendor IT contracts and standardizing purchases; encouraging and recruiting more state agencies to consolidate their hardware to the ADOA Data Center; setting standards, practices and contract support for open source technologies; developing virtual “cloud” computing to reduce IT capital, and creating a single IT asset management system as a cost control and inventory management system.”

Arizona’s FY 2010 Statewide Strategic Information Technology Plan serves as the foundational document in guiding and improving Arizona’s IT. This plan was prepared by the Government Information Technology Agency working in consultation with state agency Chief Information Officers (CIOs).

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