The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) is a law that helps to create greater transparency for agency IT spending and provides agency Chief Information Officers (CIO) with the authority they need to improve efficiencies and address challenges. What does that mean for NIH? It means that the NIH CIO has been delegated authority by HHS to approve IT acquisitions up to $20M in annual value or $100M in value over five years. In order to maintain this delegation, the CIO must review and approve all planned IT purchasing. For the purpose of this site, the focus will be exclusively on how NIH has implemented FITARA.