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The Center for Information Technology (CIT) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a cabinet-level department of the Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government. Originating in 1954 as a central processing facility in the NIH Office of the Director, the Division of Computer Research and Technology was established in 1964, merging in 1998 with the NIH Office of the CIO and the NIH Office of Research Services Telecommunications Branch to form a new organization, the CIT. ==Mission== CIT's provides and manages information technology and advances computational scientific development. CIT supports NIH and other Federal research and management programs with administrative and 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 information systems and networking services; * provides scientific and administrative computing facilities; * identifies new computing technologies with application to biomedical research; * creates, purchases, and distributes software applications; * provides NIH staff with computing information, expertise, and training; * provides data-processing and 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Center for Information Technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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