Information Technology
Information Technology (IT) at ORNL serves a diverse community of stakeholders and interests. From everyday operations like email and telecommunications to institutional cluster computing and high bandwidth networking, IT at ORNL is responsible for planning and executing a coordinated strategy that ensures cost-effective, state-of-the-art computing capabilities for research and development. ORNL IT delivers leading-edge products to users in a risk-managed portfolio of services.
To drive this mission, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) develops, communicates and manages strategy, policy and finance across the portfolio of IT assets. Both cyber security and project management risk are managed through this office. Working with the IT Service Division (ITSD), the two groups execute to achieve excellence in our operations.


Michael E. Bartell, chief information officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington, D.C., has been named chief information officer (CIO) for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (
James J. Hack directs the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and the Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute. (
David C. Bader is the Deputy Director of the Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute, where he oversees of ORNL’s 2003 climate change research funded by the DOE Office of Science. (
Arthur Bernard Maccabe will direct the Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (