George Linares is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As CTO, George serves as one of the Agency's principal officials responsible for shaping CMS’s technical direction, keeping the agency on the leading edge of technology trends and positioning CMS for the future. George’s focuses on system architectures & security, innovative capabilities and strengthening interoperability across CMS’ ecosystems. George advocates the optimization of CMS' IT investments and proposes enhancements to CMS IT and information technology practices to maintain cost-effective offerings to the ever evolving and maturing of CMS’ technical capabilities, with an emphasis of supporting CMS’ mission.