[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 61 (Wednesday, March 31, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15370-15372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7815]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part N, National Institutes of Health, of the Statement of 
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the 
Department of Health and Human Services (40 FR 22859, May 27, 1975, as 
amended most recently at 64 FR 7205, February 12, 1999, and 
redesignated from Part HN as Part N at 60 FR 56605, November 9, 1995), 
is amended as set forth below to reflect the reorganization of the 
Center for Information Technology (CIT). (1) Revise CIT's functional 
statement. (2) In the Office of the Director, CIT, revise the 
functional statement for the Office of the Director (NU1, formerly 
HNU1); retitle the Office of Administrative Management (NU14, formerly 
HNU14) as the Office of the Deputy Director; establish the Office of 
the Chief Technology Officer (NU1-2, formerly HNU1-2) and the Office of 
the Deputy Chief Information Officer (NU13, formerly HNU13); and 
abolish the Office of Information Technology and Planning (NU18, 
formerly HNU18). (3) Retitle the Office of Computational Bioscience 
(NU2, formerly HNU2) as the Division

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of Computational Bioscience and revise the functional statement. (4) 
Retitle the Office of Telecommunications Management (NU4, formerly 
HNU4) as the Division of Network Systems and Telecommunications and 
revise the functional statement. (5) Establish the Division of Customer 
Support (NU6, formerly HNU6), the Division of Computer System Services 
(NU7, formerly HNU7), and the Division of Enterprise and Custom 
Applications (NU8, formerly HNU8). (6) Abolish the Office of Computing 
Resources and Services (NU3, formerly HNU3) and the Office of 
Information Resources Management (NU5, formerly HNU5).
    Section N-B, Organization and Functions, is amended as follows:
    Under the heading Center for Information Technology (NU, formerly 
HNU), delete the organizations and functional statements in their 
entirety and replace with the following:
    Center for Information Technology (NU, formerly HNU). (1) Provides 
leadership for the determination of NIH computational and 
telecommunications needs at all levels and oversees the development of 
appropriate infrastructure support to meet identified needs; (2) 
develops, operates, and maintains a state-of-the-art regional computer 
facility and provides overall guidance based on legislation and policy 
that is responsive to the NIH mission; (3) develops and provides NIH 
information technology (IT) policy to implement legislative mandates, 
such as those under the Clinger-Cohen Act; Presidential and other 
Administration initiatives; and DHHS, OMB, and other policy and 
administrative requirements; (4) provides leadership and focus within 
NIH for the development and implementation of policy and standards in 
the area of information technology by identifying, documenting, and 
communicating information technology issues, problems, and solutions to 
the NIH community in a comprehensive and meaningful way; (5) 
establishes and operates the necessary organization and infrastructure 
to assure appropriate security, connectivity, and inter-operability 
across the NIH Institutes and Centers; off-campus locations, and remote 
access; (6) collaborates on, and provides for, research activities in 
the computational biosciences and statistics; (7) develops, 
administers, and manages NIH systems, and provides consulting services 
to the ICs, in support of administrative and business applications; and 
(8) serves as a Federal Data Processing Center for administrative, 
biomedical, and statistical computing, provides data processing and 
high performance computing facilities and integrated telecommunications 
data networks, and provides services to the DHHS and other Federal 
agencies.
    Office of the Director (NU1, formerly HNU1). (1) Plans, directs, 
coordinates, and evaluates the Center's programs, policies, and 
procedures; and (2) provides analysis and guidance in the development 
of systems for the effective use of IT techniques and equipment in 
support of NIH programs.
    Office of the Chief Technology Officer (NU1-2, formerly HNU1-2). 
(1) Advises the Center Director on NIH computational and 
telecommunications needs; (2) provides analysis and guidance in the 
development of systems in support of NIH-wide IT initiatives; (3) 
evaluates new technologies to provide planning guidance for Center 
programs and services; and (4) coordinates IT architectural management 
for the NIH.
    Office of the Deputy Chief Information Officer (NU13, formerly 
HNU13). (1) Advises the Chief Information Officer on the direction and 
management of significant NIH IT program and policy activities under 
the relevant Federal statutes, regulations and policies; (2) develops, 
implements, manages, and oversees NIH IT activities related to IT 
legislation, regulations, and NIH and other Federal policies; (3) 
directs NIH's IT capital planning processes with regard to major IT 
investments, and provides leadership to ICs in enhancing and 
strengthening their IT program management to ensure compliance with 
legislative and policy requirements; (4) serves as the principal NIH 
liaison to the DHHS, its OPDIVs, and other Federal agencies on IT 
matters; (5) identifies critical IT issues and analyzes, plans, leads, 
and manges NIH's implementation of special DHHS or Federal initiatives 
related to management of IT resources; and (6) collaborates with NIH 
functional managers responsible for IT-related areas, such as 
acquisition, automated information systems security, information 
collection, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Privacy Act.
    Office of the Deputy Director (NU14, formerly HNU14). (1) Provides 
guidance and support to the Center Director on the administrative and 
business management aspects of the Center's programs, policies, and 
procedures; (2) plans and manages the administrative services for the 
Center; (3) coordinates development and oversight of the CIT budget; 
(4) advises on the management and optimal use of human resources; (5) 
coordinates the Center's response to NIH-wide management programs; (6) 
provides advice on internal information technology activities, 
including strategic planning, budget planning, performance measurement, 
capacity management, and coordination of the acquisition of information 
processing resources, and oversees the Center's IT programs for 
compliance with regulatory IT requirements; (7) plans and carries out 
information dissemination activities for the Center; and (8) provides 
contract coordination services to the Center.
    Division of Computational Bioscience (NU2, formerly HNU2). (1) 
Coordinates and manages all Center activities related to the conduct 
and support of NIH research in the computational biosciences and 
statistics; (2) applies computing technology to research involving 
molecular structure determination and modeling, protein and DNA 
sequence analysis, and biomedical imaging; (3) conducts and supports 
research in mathematical theory and biophysical instrumentation to 
explain biological phenomena in terms of chemistry and physics; (4) 
conducts research and development in computer science and computational 
engineering; (5) promotes the application of high performance computing 
to biomedical research, evaluates the overall performance of these 
programs, and represents the Center to the Federal Program in High 
Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC); (6) operates the CIT 
High Performance Computing Platforms and supports the NIH distributed 
scientific workstation efforts; and (7) communicates and collaborates 
with researchers, both within and outside NIH, to obtain and provide 
information concerning the Center's ongoing and future research, and 
support for research.
    Division of Network Systems and Telecommunications (NU4, formerly 
HNU14). (1) Directs the engineering, design, implementation and support 
of network infrastructure and services for the NIH wide area network 
(NIHnet) to facilitate the use of scientific, administrative, and other 
business applications; (2) manages and directs NIH telecommunications 
systems; (3) develops technical requirements for the NIH ICs and 
implements telecommunications programs to meet the needs of the NIH 
community; (4) serves as the focal point for telecommunications service 
orders; (5) develops and disseminates recommended standards, policies 
and procedures for the nationwide implementation and management of NIH 
networking and telecommunications systems; (6) researches, develops, 
and tests next-generation networking/telecommunications technologies; 
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develops and supports applications using new network technologies, such 
as telemedicine and video conferencing; (8) provides consulting, 
guidance and support to the ICs to meet their network requirements; (9) 
serves as liaison to the NIH ICs and other DHHS components on 
networking/telecommunications activities to improve information 
infrastructure; (10) develops, implements, and supports remote access 
services to NIHnet; (11) provides technical support for wireless 
services; and (12) provides 24-hour telephone/network support service.
    Division of Customer Support (NU6, formerly HNU6). (1) Provides 
centralized, integrated computer support services to the NIH computing 
community; (2) advocates customer needs to CIT management and 
represents services and policies to the Center's customers; (3) plays 
an active and participatory role in support of desktop computing to the 
end-user, including the seamless migration of desktop technologies in 
the areas of software, hardware, Internet, communications, and access; 
(4) coordinates and oversees the CIT Training Program for the benefit 
of the NIH computing community; (5) manages NIH-wide HelpDesk and 
implements problem tracking systems; and (6) provides central account 
establishment and management services for access to CIT systems.
    Division of Computer System Services (NU7, formerly HNU7). (1) 
Plans, implements, operates, and supports centrally owned or 
administered computing resources for NIH enterprises use, ensuring 
interoperability among those resources and between them and other 
computing facilities owned by customer organizations; (2) promotes 
awareness and efficient and effective use of these computing resources 
by customer personnel through training, presentations, consultations, 
and documentation; (3) investigates new and emerging computing 
requirements of customer programs; (4) conducts research and 
development to identify, evaluate, and adapt new computer architectures 
and technologies to meet identified customer requirements and to 
enhance current service offerings; and (5) where appropriate, manages 
and operates departmental computing resources for IC, Office, or Center 
use.
    Division of Enterprise and Custom Applications (NU8, formerly 
HNU8). (1) Supports the NIH enterprise business process through the 
development and management of both transaction and decision-support 
environments for administrative and business applications of the NIH, 
such as procurement, budget, accounting and human resource activities; 
(2) provides systems analysis, programming and application services to 
the NIH ICs and other Federal agencies; (3) provides databases 
administration and management services to the NIH; (4) provides World 
Wide Web development and support services to the NIH community; and (5) 
provides consulting services to the NIH ICs for applications 
development.
    Delegations of Authority Statement: All delegations and 
redelegations of authority to offices and employees of NIH which were 
in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this 
reorganization and are consistent with this reorganization shall 
continue in effect, pending further redelegation.

    Dated: March 17, 1999.
Harold Varmus,
Director, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 99-7815 Filed 3-30-99; 8:45 am]
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