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Agency of Digital Services seeks $15 million one-time transfer to smooth FY26 IT chargebacks
Summary
Secretary Riley Hughes told the Senate Appropriations Committee ADS plans to move to a core enterprise services model and requests a $15 million one-time transfer to buy down invoiced SLA charges so agencies are not double-billed in FY26; broader reform to billing and asset management is planned for FY27.
Riley Hughes, secretary of the Agency of Digital Services and Vermont’s chief information officer, told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Feb. 18 that ADS is requesting a $15 million one-time transfer to cover fiscal-year 2026 core enterprise services and reduce service-level agreement (SLA) chargebacks that otherwise would be invoiced to agencies in the next fiscal year.
Hughes said ADS is proposing to move to a “core enterprise services” model that separates foundational IT services (a baseline allocation) from demand-driven services that agencies request beyond the baseline. “We would like to actually do the baseline, the foundations as allocation,” Hughes said, arguing that defining a shared set of services will allow ADS to…
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