The California Department of Technology (CDT) would be required to develop a contractor performance assessment reporting system no later than 2019 under legislation reintroduced by Assemblymember Autumn Burke, D-Inglewood.
Technical support is needed for SDI Online (SDIO), California Unemployment Benefits System (CUBS) and UI Online (UIO), according to an Invitation for Bid publicly released on March 27.
This month's newsletter features a conversation with Franchise Tax Board CIO Cathy Cleek, who this week was named one of Government Technology magazine's Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of 2017. We also profile the first few months for the California Department of Conservation's new CIO, Catherine Kendall, and present California's top IT priorities in several verticals.
Franchise Tax Board CIO Cathy Cleek, Los Angeles CIO Ted Ross and three others from California local government made Government Technology magazine's Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers list for 2017 recognizing individuals and teams for enabling transformation at all levels of their organizations.
Historically, state agencies and departments have had to report their compliance with California's cybersecurity administrative baseline by hand through a series of paper forms, a process state Chief Information Security Officer Peter Liebert said was "extremely cumbersome."
California's public utilities commission on Thursday approved $46.7 million in grant funding for a major middle-mile broadband project that will stretch from Redding to the Northern California coast, covering some of the state's most rural, isolated towns.
New technologies like 5G will put a bigger load on utility poles in California as more companies vie to attach to them. It's a safety issue for the line workers who maintain them, and an access and fairness issue for the companies who want to put equipment on them. The California Public Utility Commission's president said they are becoming "contested real estate."
The Department of General Services unveiled its 2017 Strategic Plan this month, and the document gives a glimpse into some of the organization's goals when it comes to technology. We made a graphic to show them to you.
The California Information Technology Annual Report 2016 has been posted to CDT's website. The document summarizes the department's goals and achievements, metrics and statistics, and program objectives and philosophy within key areas such as cybersecurity, innovation, IT project management and delivery, and procurement. It's worth a read.
Legislators are taking another stab at raising the dollar thresholds that would constitute a Small Business or Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SB/DVBE), for the purpose of procurement in California state government.
The Sacramento City Council approved Tuesday evening a five-year, $3.95 million contract with Taser International to purchase equipment supporting a body camera program for the city's law enforcement personnel.
Technology vendors that do business with the state of California want to know who is winning contracts, and how much those contracts are worth. But getting that information can be a chore that requires placing a phone call to a procurement official, filing a records request or even visiting an office building to look up a bid award document.
The State Treasurer's Office, in partnership with SymSoft Solutions, has developed a new online portal for wading through the confusing array of economic incentives available to businesses through California state and local government.
During the next two years, the state of California plans to focus on some of the government's largest IT systems in the health and human services sphere.
The Department of Consumer Affairs' licensing and enforcement system, called BreEZe, has moved into the maintenance and operations phase — but that does not mean the work is done.
The Department of Technology intends to award a competitively bid contract for encryption technologies to Comodo CA Limited, according to correspondence this week. The vendor will provide Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates, Managed Public Key Infrastructure (MPKI) functionalities and maintenance and support.,
The California Department of Technology's desire to do more upfront groundwork before the design and implementation phase of major IT projects could result in "potential trade-offs" such as longer schedules and significant funding requests for planning, according to a report released Friday by the Legislative Analyst's Office.
Marnell Voss, deputy director of the California Department of Technology's Statewide Technology Procurement Division (STPD), is retiring effective March 2, Techwire has confirmed. She has been in the role for three years, since March 2014.
Techwire recently sat down to talk with Cathy Cleek, CIO of California's Franchise Tax Board (FTB). Cleek has been in her current job for 11 year and has seen technology change during the course of her 33-year career at the tax board. Cleek had interesting things to say about the future.
Amid concerns about cost and schedule, Department of FI$Cal director Miriam Barcellona Ingenito told lawmakers Thursday that California's new financial and accounting system is functioning and in production, but she acknowledged that onboarding state departments, not the technology piece, is the project's biggest challenge.
State lawmakers and local officials on Wednesday brought forward a proposal that would enable San Francisco and San Jose to test automated technology that tickets speeding drivers. More than 140 cities across the U.S. currently utilize Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) systems, but California law does not yet permit the technology.
Many are wondering if the influence of Ajit Pai, whom President Trump promoted to chairman of the FCC, might substantially change the landscape for telecommunications companies, broadband service providers and emerging technologies. A review of some of Pai's correspondence with state government and his comments in front of the private sector in California do shed a small measure of light on the matter
California on Monday afternoon released the final version of a solicitation that will guide the selection process for expanding a pool of vendors pre-qualified to provide state agencies and departments with "user-centric" design and agile software development services.
