DTMB presents centralized IT model, procurement changes and project updates to House subcommittee

Department of Technology, Management & Budget Chief Information Officer Laura Clark and Chief Procurement Officer Jared Ambrosier presented the department’s consolidated information-technology model, lifecycle risk management and procurement practices to the Michigan House Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government at a May 2025 meeting.

The presentation described a consolidated, “build once, serve many” approach that DTMB said reduces cost and risk by sharing infrastructure, unifying identity and access management, consolidating licenses and providing enterprise procurement vehicles. Clark said DTMB’s work underpins “how we supply services to Michigan’s residents, visitors, and businesses.”

DTMB emphasized why centralization matters: it provides a single login for state applications, enterprise license purchasing and more centralized cybersecurity controls. “Our adversaries only have to be right one time when they attack us, but our team needs to be right every single time they’re attacked,” Clark said, summarizing the department’s view on threat exposure and defensive burden.

The subcommittee heard several concrete figures DTMB presented: the agency supports more than 58,000 end-user devices, about 4,100 servers and roughly 1,700 business applications; the department said its cyber team blocked over 27,000,000 potentially malicious intrusion attempts in the past 30 days. Clark also noted that 73 counties have joined the Michigan Public Safety Communications System (MPSCS) and five more are in planning.

Procurement changes, pilot tools and supplier oversight

Ambrosier described…