Governor’s Technology Office Announces Three-Part Executive Branch Technology Governance Package
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 24, 2026
Governor’s Technology Office Announces Three-Part Executive Branch Technology Governance Package
New statewide framework reduces decision fatigue, limits duplicative technology spend, and strengthens trust in official Nevada government websites
CARSON CITY, NV — Nevada is taking a more deliberate enterprise approach to technology governance across the executive branch. The Governor’s Technology Office today announced a three-part technology governance package: the Technology Investment Evaluation (TIE) Policy, the Duplicate Spend Review and Enterprise Transition Planning procedure, and the Executive Branch Website and Domain Governance Standard. All three documents took effect April 22, 2026. Together, they establish a more consistent statewide approach for reviewing technology investments, resolving enterprise overlap, and governing public-facing digital services.
“This is not policy for policy’s sake, and it is not a set of one-off documents,” said Timothy Galluzi, Nevada’s State Chief Information Officer. “It is a whole-of-state strategy to eliminate decision fatigue. We are being intentional and deliberate about how agencies come through the front door, how technology investments are evaluated, how enterprise overlap is handled, and how Nevadans identify trusted government websites.”
The TIE Policy establishes the statewide intake and evaluation process for qualifying technology investments and defines when executive branch agencies must submit a TIE, how reviews are conducted, and how determinations are documented to support procurement and governance activities. It applies to agencies planning, procuring, renewing, or significantly changing technology investments, including software, cloud services, equipment, and vendor-supported IT services. The policy replaces legacy TIN and CIN forms with a questionnaire-based workflow, and it includes a practical rule of thumb: if a solution touches, views, moves, stores, or shares State data, agencies should submit a TIE unless the activity has been explicitly excluded.
The Duplicate Spend Review and Enterprise Transition Planning procedure addresses situations where an agency request overlaps with an existing or planned GTO enterprise offering. Its purpose is to support continuity of service, identify avoidable duplicate spend, and create a repeatable path for earlier coordination and future enterprise onboarding. Where a transition cannot responsibly occur within the current renewal cycle, the procedure allows for a documented interim decision while directing earlier reengagement before the next renewal or major decision point.
The Executive Branch Website and Domain Governance Standard establishes a consistent statewide approach for executive branch public websites and public-facing domains. The standard is intended to help the public recognize official Nevada government websites, reduce phishing and spoofing risks, and set baseline requirements for security, accessibility, and content governance. It also creates a clear statewide intake process for new public websites, major platform changes, domain registrations, DNS changes affecting public access, and significant content migrations, while directing GTO to maintain an authoritative directory of official executive branch websites and domains.
Taken together, the three documents are meant to replace improvisation with a common statewide playbook. The TIE Policy notes that TIE information may inform broader technology planning and future portfolio analysis, the duplicate spend procedure creates a repeatable decision path around enterprise overlap, and the website standard provides a supported intake process so agencies do not need to improvise when they need a new public site or web address. The result is a more intentional model for executive branch technology governance: less duplication, less guesswork, and more consistent delivery for Nevadans.
Media Contact
Michael Hanna-Butros Meyering
Chief Communication and Policy Officer
Governor’s Technology Office
(775)495-0603 | IT-Social@it.nv.gov