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About CIT

The Center for Information Technology (CIT) provides high-quality IT services and infrastructure systems to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—the leading biomedical research institution in the United States.

What We Do

At CIT we provide high-quality IT services and infrastructure systems to NIH, supporting its mission to help make biomedical discoveries that protect and improve our nation’s health.

Who We Serve

Over 45,000 NIH members across 200+ facilities rely daily on CIT-managed IT services. CIT supports all 27 NIH Institutes and Centers, each with specific research focuses.

How We Do It

As a service organization, CIT strives to listen to customers, empower staff, foster innovation, and provide value, delivering top-tier IT infrastructure and support to NIH and its partners.

Our Organization

Our staff of over 1,000 is split between four offices with different areas of expertise that work together to support both CIT and NIH.

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