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About Me

Agency/Company/Association:

GAO

Title:

Director, IT Architecture & Systems Issues

Sector:

Public Sector

Presentations:

Preview of Next Version of GAO's EA Management Maturity Framework

About Me:

Mr. Hite is the Director of Information Technology Architecture and Systems Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he is responsible for GAO’s work on IT issues across the government concerning architecture and systems acquisition, development, operations, and maintenance, as well as GAO’s IT work at DOD, DHS, State, and Justice. During his 30-year career with GAO, he has directed reviews of major federal IT investments, such as IRS’ business systems modernization, FAA’s air traffic control modernization, NWS’s weather systems modernization, DHS’s border security modernization programs (e.g., ACE, US-VISIT, and SBInet), DOD’s business systems modernization, as well as other system areas, such as electronic voting systems. He has also directed GAO’s research and publication of enterprise architecture best practices, and its evaluations of federal agencies’ development and use of enterprise architectures, and their systems development and acquisition and IT services outsourcing efforts. Mr. Hite is a principal author of several information technology management guides, such as GAO’s guide on system testing, the federal CIO Counsel guide on enterprise architectures, and GAO’s enterprise architecture management maturity framework. He frequently testifies before Congress on these and other topics.Mr. Hite has a degree in business administration, with a concentration in accounting and information systems, from James Madison University, and he has completed graduate work in information systems at George Washington University and received software engineering training from Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. He is also a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, Harvard University’s JFK School of Government Program on Leadership and Performance, and Syracuse University’s Maxwell School Program on National Security Studies. Mr. Hite has received many awards throughout his career, including GAO's Meritorious Service Award, Distinguished Service Award, and multiple Congressional Client Service Awards. He has also received various government-wide awards, such as the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award, the Secure E-Government Thought Leadership Award, and the e-Gov Institute Excellence in Enterprise Architecture Award.