The department says it intends to develop a contract for Digital Map Products: LandVision Enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), SpatialStream Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Digital Map Products (DMP) SmartParcels (Content) Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription services.
The Brown administration and the University of California, San Francisco announced on Tuesday that six projects have been selected for the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. Precision medicine uses data-driven tools, analysis and advanced computing to develop new diagnostics, therapies and insights into disease.
The high-speed rail route that might someday stretch from Sacramento to San Diego could be a means to build out high-speed broadband across the state. That's the idea behind a memorandum of understanding the California High-Speed Rail Authority recently signed with the nonprofit called CENIC that operates the California Research and Education Network (CalREN), which serves schools, universities, cities and libraries.
Greg Gearheart, deputy director of Information Management and Analysis for the State Water Resources Control Board, will discuss the California Water Data Challenge tonight at The Hacker Lab in Sacramento.
The Office of Medi-Cal Procurement with the Department of Health Care Services has released a Notice of Intent to Award to OZ Systems USA, LLC, for a data management services contract for California's Newborn Hearing Screening Program, which screens and evaluates approximately 500,000 babies each year at as many as 290 hospitals across the state.
California’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing has sent out a Request for Offer to procure a firm to help design and develop an electronic Accreditation Data System for the Streamline and Strengthen the Accreditation Process (SSAP) project. Firms qualified under the California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS) are invited to submit offers.
In the wake of a recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the East Coast-based Internet infrastructure company Dyn, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris advised Californians on ways to protect themselves from potential hacks.
The Department of General Services is purchasing a customizable, off-the-shelf, Web-based application system for the California Office of Statewide Health, Planning and Development (OSHPD) in a bid released Nov. 1.
The Department of Health Care Services is seeking a qualified firm to use modular design principles in a project for its HIPAA Compliance Office. Contractors qualified under the Department of General Services' Master Services Agreement (IT MSA) for consulting services are invited to submit proposals.
The California Water Data Challenge, announced on Friday, invites interested individuals and teams to develop apps, websites, data visualizations or other tools “that leverage publicly available data sets in novel ways to support creative solutions to California’s water challenges, as outlined in the Brown administration’s California Water Action Plan,” according to a joint release by several state agencies supporting the competition.
The IT Alliance for Public Sector (ITAPS) introduced on Thursday new recommendations for aligning states' IT contract terms and conditions "as closely as possible to commercial contracting practices."
The Sacramento City Council has recommended 15 recipients for new innovation grants the city hopes will boost entrepreneurs in the local tech economy. Some familiar names, such as I/O Labs, Hacker Lab and Code for Sacramento, landed on the list.
The proposed guidance asks agencies to develop and implement targeted modernization plans for specific high-risk, high-priority systems, and to do so in four phases.
Los Angeles County Chief Information Security Officer Robert Pittman is one of eight winners of the sixth-annual Cybersecurity Leadership and Innovation Awards, announced by the Center for Digital Government on Thursday.
California Department of Insurance is conducting market research for cloud-based Software-as-a-Service data analytics services for its Network Adequacy Reporting System project.
California State University (CSU) is seeking a data center support solution that can scale-on-demand and be available 24/7, in a recently released RFP.
California's information security office is developing a streamlined list of security objectives for state agencies and departments that's intended to address high-risk issues. State officials believe the approximately 30 objectives will help put the state's computer systems onto a common baseline and standardize the controls.
The solution will be used to manage workflows for two CAL FIRE divisions — the Fire and Life Safety and Fire Engineering Divisions — including applications, plan reviews, inspections, Certificates of Occupancy, licenses, operator registrations, contractor registrations and other types of licenses.
Clark County, Nev., CIO Louis Carr will assume the role chief information technology officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in mid-November.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is in the market for IT consulting and system design services to work on the Marine Landings Data System. The department is soliciting bids for the project through the California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS).
This week CalFresh Branch Chief Kim McCoy Wade detailed the work the government program (formerly known as Food Stamps) has been doing with Code for America to develop new ways for customers to access their benefits. Code for America and CalFresh have been working to develop an application support site as well as a mobile platform for the application that’s in plain English.
New facts and figures from the California Department of Justice analyze firearms transactions in the state. A series of statistics, charts and graphs about the topic are now available on OpenJustice, the department's open data website, Cal DOJ announced Wednesday.
At Hacker Lab in Sacramento tonight, Kim McCoy Wade, chief of the CalFresh Branch at the Welfare to Work Division of the California Department of Social Services, will talk about how CalFresh, formerly known as food stamps, is using technology to achieve its program goals.
The cap will apply to any customers using more than 1 terabyte per month, well above the average customer’s monthly usage says the company, which is about 75 gigabytes per month. The cap will go into effect for California customers on Nov. 1., according to several media reports.
The California Employment Development Department announced on Monday its new online Data Library, intended to assist users in accessing information about the California labor market. The new portal will allow users to search, view and download data on California industries, occupations, employment projections, wages and labor force.
Continuing the fight against cybercrime in California, state Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Monday the creation of the California Cyber Crime Center, a new program by the California Department of Justice intended to fight digital crime and utilize new cybersecurity technologies across the state.
After its controversial "free Internet" program was shut down in India, the social giant hopes to leverage its position in the tech community to offer rural U.S. residents some form of connection.
