The Franchise Tax Board celebrated Wednesday the completion of its Enterprise Data to Revenue (EDR) project, a major five-year effort that has modernized technology systems and business processes supporting the collection of tax revenue in California.
Former Intel executive Ron Hurle came aboard in June as CTO, where as part of his duties he's providing direction and policy guidance to the CalPERS Information Technology Services Branch and aligning enterprise IT services and support, data center, applications and network across CalPERS business units.
An e-government measure soon could clear the Legislature that would allow county registrar/recorders and California state officials to accept electronic verification of identity when constituents request a certified copy of a birth, death or marriage record.
The legislation, SB 441, has quickly gained traction, months after a purported criminal scheme uncovered last spring attempted to intercept payments sent by the city of Dixon to a vendor.
The Department of Health Care Services has canceled procurement of a fraud analytics platform for the Medi-Cal program due to inconsistencies in client reference requirements within the Request for Proposals document, according to a letter made available Thursday morning. A vendor for the project was selected in March.
The center, which is located alongside the state's main fusion center at the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, has been operational since mid-April, said Eli Owen, deputy commander of the California State Threat Assessment Center (STAC), during a presentation at the California Technology Forum in Sacramento on Aug. 11.
The State Senate passed transparency legislation on Monday that would require local government entities to post all meeting agendas online via a prominent, direct link no later than 2019. The bill requires meeting agendas to be posted at a consistent, visible location on the homepage of a local agency's Internet website or provide a direct link to an agenda portal if they have one.
A wide-ranging discussion in Sacramento about the future of agile development yielded some insightful observations about how it could potentially impact vendors, suppliers and other firms that work on technology projects for California state government.
The dialog about agile continues on Thursday at the California Technology Forum in Sacramento when a panel of practitioners will share their perspectives on agile and California's evolving strategy for managing and developing information technology.
Could Sacramento become a test bed for autonomous vehicles? The region's innovation hub is exploring avenues to become a bigger part of the emerging industry.
The Department of Social Services system was started more than four decades ago, and a second iteration of the system — CMIPS II — was awarded in 2008. California and the system developer transitioned the modernized system to the maintenance and operations phase in 2014. The current contract ends in 2018.
With former California Conservation Corps CIO Rita Gass now occupying the same position at the Secretary of State's Office, the Corps has reorganized its leadership as it continues to work on a replacement for its legacy ERP system.
The Legislature passed a bill on Monday that could make it easier for California state government to use digital signature technology. California's government code has muddled the issue dating back more than two decades.
Eli Owen, deputy commander of the California State Threat Assessment Center, works for the California Office of Emergency Services. He will give remarks Thursday during the California Technology Forum in Sacramento.
When the Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA) folded last fall, one effort the organization abandoned was the region’s state-designated innovation hub, called the iHub. Local stakeholders are now working to reinvigorate the region's innovation cluster.
The Assembly Appropriations heard legislation Wednesday that would change California's definition of a small business, for contracting and procurement purposes, to a business that earns no more than $15 million in annual gross receipts.
With its summer recess over, the Legislature reconvened this week and is considering numerous bills on technology in the lead-up to the end of the month — the last time to pass legislation this year except under special circumstances. Here's where things stand after hearings and votes on Monday and Tuesday.
Three state of California technology projects have landed on a national list of finalists for the annual State IT Recognition Awards from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).
The percentage of California households with access to broadband continues to rise, with 84 percent now having connectivity, according to an annual survey released on Friday. In 2014, the figure was only 75 percent. Over the same two-year time period, the proportion of households that connect to broadband only through a smartphone grew from 8 percent to 14 percent.
The California Innovation Lab is a sandbox within the state's private cloud where public-sector developers can experiment with, share and reuse open source code and technology in a secure environment.
The Child Welfare Digital Services organization has posted a recording of a July 15 public forum where the state sought feedback on the procurement process for the first parts of California's child welfare system modernization.
Sacramento CIO Maria MacGunigal says an innovative public-private partnership could help service providers add new infrastructure and generate new revenue for the city.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has selected Envisage Technologies to develop a new online solution for the the State Fire Training Unit's training and professional certification system for firefighters and other personnel.
Roseville's current ERP system is more than 20 years old. Roseville's CIO, Hong Sae, said the project is in motion and on schedule, and the city hosted a bidders conference last month. Proposals from ERP vendors are due Friday.
The Board of Equalization is negotiating with two vendors as the state nears the contracting phase for the Centralized Revenue Opportunity System (CROS), according to the board's CIO. CROS will replace the Board of Equalization’s patchwork of legacy systems built in the 1990s to collect and monitor sales-and-use taxes, some property taxes, special taxes and other revenue streams. The state intends to hire one system integrator.
A project management plan approved July 7 explains that developing a new track-and-trace system and licensing system for cultivators and nurseries is "time-constrained" and must be completed, according to statute, by Jan. 1, 2018. Vendors have told the department that they will need approximately 16 months to deploy the new systems.
For the first time, California is presenting its enacted state budget with the same amount of detail as the proposed budget that comes out earlier in the year, FI$Cal officials told Techwire on Tuesday.
More than 20 years after California first approved the use of electronic signatures for state government business, officials are still trying to sort out how to implement and support them. One of the newer areas of focus is differentiating between electronic signatures and digital signatures within the language of California's government code.
Lawmakers will reconvene at the State Capitol in two weeks, leaving them about 30 days to pass bills and send them to the governor. Several pieces of legislation with a technology bent – IT systems, cybersecurity, and policy and law – are still in play.
A new state law that went into effect this month forces California cities, counties and other local agencies to post an inventory online of their enterprise computer systems that collect public data.
