IT is managed by a Board of Directors, with the support of the Director General, and by site management boards. IT scientific activities are overseen by the Scientific Board, which meets twice a year to comment on the Work Plan and Budget, on the Annual Report, and on any other subject put forward by the Board of Directors.
The Work Plan with the Budget and the Annual Report and Accounts (after legal certification) are subsequently submitted to the General Assembly for approval. IT Work Plan and the Annual Report are discussed with the Advisory Council.
Some IT researchers are located also at other Portuguese higher education institutions, namely at the universities of Algarve and Évora, and the polytechnics of Lisbon, Setúbal and Tomar.
IT members (about 200 PhD holding integrated researchers) are organized into research clusters and groups, which cover most of the R&D areas in Telecommunications and supporting sciences and technologies. IT hosts annually about 250 PhD students and about 200 MSc students.
Advanced laboratory facilities are available in most Thematic Lines of IT to support applied research, which is carried out in the framework of national and international projects in cooperation with similar research institutions worldwide. Each year IT is involved in more than 170 projects, of which about 30-40 have European funding, obtained in a competitive basis.
IT actively promotes a high level of scientific research trough a "Quality Policy", issued in 2011, which includes an annual evaluation of its members' scientific production, and a reward/sanction system. Yearly, IT scientific output nears 30 books and book chapters, 450+ papers in international scientific peer refereed journals (of which 95% in Q1+Q2 journal), 450+ papers in conference proceedings and 5+ filed patents.