The FDA has reorganized the agency’s information technology (IT), data management and cybersecurity functions into the new Office of Digital Transformation (ODT), which has been realigned to report directly to the FDA commissioner. This elevates the office and its functions to agency-level, as well as advance the agency’s IT transformation with improved data and IT competencies that improve agency operations to support the public health mission.
The agency says this reorganization is a significant step in its technology and data modernization efforts that began more than two years ago. It allows the FDA to include more effective and efficient data and IT management, built on best practices, to streamline and advance agency operations by reducing duplicative processes, implementing technological efficiencies using projects that deliver the most customer benefits, and promoting shared services within agency offices and centers to strategically and securely further the agency’s regulatory mission.