North Carolina restructures statewide IT agency

Statescoop: North Carolina is now consolidating its IT operations in an effort to allay growing concerns about the cost and management of state tech projects.

Last week, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a budget last week that made the state’s IT agency a cabinet-level department. The state Office of Information Technology Service will now be known as the Department of Information Technology. The transformation represents the culmination of two years of work by Chief Information Officer Chris Estes and his staff to develop what he calls a “single authority” for IT in North Carolina.

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