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Virginia Announces New Strategic Plan for Technology

The plan will take a number of steps to alter the way the commonwealth manages technology.

LEXINGTON, Va. -- Gov. Mark Warner and Secretary of Technology George Newstrom released the Commonwealth of Virginia Strategic Plan for Technology for 2002-2006.

Virginia officials said the full strategic plan, five months in the making, addresses the governors technology imperatives, Secretary Newstrom's initiatives to support those imperatives and specific agency projects that will implement the initiatives.

The plan was released Wednesday during the 4th Annual Commonwealth of Virginia Information Technology Symposium.

Highlights of the plan call for:

- Consolidating IT infrastructure and providing centralized services from one single state agency, instead of by staff in every agency;

- Coordinating and developing a unified "customer-facing" Internet portal for all state agencies which can conduct business with citizens online -- without ever involving paper in the process;

- Planning, budgeting and tracking IT expenditures by developing a capital planning and funding process for IT;

- Increasing federal research and development funding to industry and Virginia's colleges and universities;

- Increasing commercialization of intellectual property from Virginia's labs, entrepreneurs, and institutions of higher education; and

- Increasing statewide broadband deployment, especially in rural areas.

"When fully implemented, these fundamental changes in the way Virginia government purchases and manages information technology will save more than $100 million dollars a year," said Gov. Warner.

"Much of our plan will revolutionize service delivery to our customers," said Secretary Newstrom. "It also will result in long -term structural changes that will make our technology resources more efficient and effective."

Office of Gov. Mark Warner