California’s Conservation Corps has an annual budget around $95 million for the 2017-18 fiscal year, of which about $4 million is allocated to IT. At the moment, the CCC is primarily focusing on continuing to implement new modules for its C3 system.
CSU is beginning to consider cloud services as it grows. The university system is also working to centralize all the data used in ERP, facilities and academic planning.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is requesting offers for a network engineer virtualization, storage and server consultant. The contractor will provide technical support for several CDCR efforts.
For fiscal year 2017-18, California’s Office of Human Resources (CalHR) has a total budget of nearly $67.7 million, of which about $3.7 million has been dedicated to IT costs.
The Department of Transportation has put out an RFQ for A&E On-Call Stormwater Monitoring and Best Management Practice (BMP) developmental services in districts 11 and 12.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the state Transportation Department and the Department of Developmental Services release RFPs, RFI for projects.
The DevOps Engineering team of the state's Child Welfare Digital Services provided an update on progress made on the project and answered questions concerning functionality and intentions as it moves forward. These events, called “sprint reviews,” have typically been directed more toward an internal audience, but the agency is aiming to make them more accessible for anyone who is following the project.
The California Office of Emergency Services has released an RFI seeking information from bidders who can provide Text to 911 services, maintenance and operation.
The state's Child Welfare Digital Services hosted the third annual California Health and Human Services Agency Data Expo this week, an effort to get the agency's 12 departments to work together and share their data to better serve all clients.
The IT departments in some key California cities and counties are considering products that would allow residents and employees to use "single sign-on solutions" — the same user name and password for all their local-government dealings — while others are already implementing these solutions.
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation launched a high-tech smart boot pilot Thursday, which it hopes will facilitate the collection of the $21 million of unpaid parking tickets L.A. drivers have racked up.
The renewable-power sector in California is facing a problem: Solar power is becoming so plentiful, generators have to sometimes pay other states to take the juice off their hands.
Attention, app developers, hackers, tinkerers and coding hobbyists: Here’s your chance to win a little cash while helping the cause of agriculture and tech.
Sacramento County has released an RFP for a comprehensive new voting system designed specifically for its county elections. The RFP was issued July 14.
The Lottery’s IT department is currently using data analytics to achieve its goal of being the largest lottery in the country and gathering more money to put toward public education. Chris Riesen, Lottery CIO, expects the department to reach $8 billion of unaudited revenue by 2018-19.
The California Highway Patrol published an RFP on July 12 for repair and maintenance services of its Toshiba telephone systems in the Southern Division.
A California company whose mission is making people see things that aren’t really there is partnering with cities and counties to use virtual reality and augmented reality to improve the quality of life for residents.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District released an RFI on July 7 for optical remote sensing technology that can evaluate emissions from refinery flares. The technology will be expected to be capable of measuring destruction and combustion efficiencies of flares, pollutants and toxic emissions.
For the fiscal year of 2017-18, the California Department of Public Health has a budget of more than $3.2 billion. Of this, about $95 million is allocated to its IT department. The department has a major initiative centered on 2035.
In April 2016, the California Department of Public Health launched Public Health 2035, an initiative to help communities realize their visions through public health policies, guidelines, funding opportunities, technical assistance and workforce development.
