Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63A > Chapter 16 > Part 2 - Chief Information Officer

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Chief information officer: means the chief information officer appointed under Section 63A-16-201. See Utah Code 63A-16-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Government Operations. See Utah Code 63A-1-103
• Division: means the Division of Technology Services. See Utah Code 63A-16-102
• Enterprise architecture: means :

  (a)

  information technology assets and functions that can be applied across state government, including: (i)  mainframes, servers, desktop devices, peripherals, and other computing devices; (ii)  networks; (iii)  enterprise-wide applications; (iv)  maintenance and help desk functions for common hardware and applications; (v)  standards for other computing devices, operating systems, common applications, and software; and (vi)  master contracts that are available for use by agencies for various systems, including operating systems, databases, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software, application development services, and enterprise integration; and

  (b)

  support for information technology that can be applied across state government, including: (i)  technical support; (ii)  master software licenses; and (iii)  hardware and software standards. See Utah Code 63A-16-102 Executive branch agency: means an agency or administrative subunit of state government. See Utah Code 63A-16-102 Executive branch strategic plan: means the executive branch strategic plan created under Section 63A-16-202. See Utah Code 63A-16-102 Individual with a disability: means an individual with a condition that meets the definition of "disability" in 42 U. See Utah Code 63A-16-102 Information technology: means all computerized and auxiliary automated information handling, including: (a)  systems design and analysis; (b)  acquisition, storage, and conversion of data; (c)  computer programming; (d)  information storage and retrieval; (e)  voice, video, and data communications; (f)  requisite systems controls; (g)  simulation; and (h)  all related interactions between people and machines. See Utah Code 63A-16-102 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State information architecture: means a logically consistent set of principles, policies, and standards that guide the engineering of state government's information technology and infrastructure in a way that ensures alignment with state government's business and service needs. See Utah Code 63A-16-102 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5