After requesting $43 million to repair its vehicle license and registration system, the state's IT office now finds itself at risk of losing its influence as a centralized agency.

Leadership of the state's technology office will stay with Mark Nunnelly as the governor pushes for a consolidated IT enterprise.

Legislation now pending final approval would restructure the state's Office of Information Technology and push operations to a new stage of maturity.

On the tail end of technology centralization efforts underway since the early '90s, the commonwealth is now reorganizing its most valuable IT resource: its people.