The Harris School of Public Policy's Information Technology division aims to support the school's educational and research agenda by providing the technological infrastructure necessary to promote efficient research programs and provide a rich learning environment for its students.

HSIT operates a number of dedicated research servers which provide data storage and analysis capabilities in a secure UNIX environment, maintains a Windows 2003 network supporting faculty/staff/student desktop machines and laptops on a pervasive wireless network, and supports a wide array of desktop and server-based software packages and applications.