The Department of Health Care Services has issued a notice of intent to award Hewlett Packard Enterprise for its competitive procurement on fiscal intermediary services for the Medi-Cal Dental Program.
The California Air Resources Board is rebuilding its Web-based system that accepts emissions certification documents submitted by automobile manufacturers.
The California Department of Technology is inviting vendors to submit proposals offering backup storage-as-a-service off premises or on premises to customers in state and local government and education.
Child Welfare Services - New System (CWS-NS) project director Les Fujitani is retiring from state government at the end of August, he confirmed to Techwire.
In September, Schmidt was appointed the chief of the Office of Technology Services (OTech) at the Department of Technology. Schmidt had been the agency CIO and director of Executive Office/IT Services at Food and Agriculture since 2011.
The all-day event at Sacramento City College will feature teams from Elk Grove High School, Casa Robles High School, Luther Burbank High School and other competitors from the Bay Area and Southern California.
The report, called Making Open Data Work in California's State Government: Lessons from Early Adopters, is available on the California State Library's GitHub page.
A $28 million enterprise IT system developed for the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) has suffered from functionality issues and project management and oversight deficiencies, according to a report from the State Auditor released Thursday morning.
Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, one of the most active state legislators on the issue of cybersecurity, has echoed concerns about where California's chief information security officer (CISO) should be positioned in the state bureaucracy.
Lt. Gov. Newsom, the former San Francisco mayor and author of e-government and innovation book Citizenville, has been highly critical of the state of California's IT procurement practices and project delivery methods.
California schools spent about $578 million two years ago on information technology through Prop 98 funding to implement the Common Core math and English standards, according to a breakdown done by the Legislative Analyst's Office.
The Office of Systems Integration has scheduled a June 16 bidders conference for its recent RFP for Intake Implementation Services on the state child welfare system modernization project.
Twenty-three departments from the state of California will be on hand with IT and business job opportunities, according to the Government Operations Agency.
The city of Stockton's proposed budget for fiscal year 2016-17 lists major technology initiatives for the coming 12 months. The include completion of an ERP replacement and VoIP, implementing virtual desktop infrastructure, and plans to upgrade CAD and radio systems.
The California Technology and Innovation Caucus, Consumer Technology Association and the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) are hosting Drone Information Day at the State Capitol on Tuesday. The event will feature live drone demonstrations, and participating companies will share the latest innovations in the industry.
The National Institutes of Health describe precision medicine as an "emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person."
A vendor performance evaluation system that has been in the works the past two years appears to be moving forward despite the departure of state CIO Carlos Ramos.
The California Department of Technology is soliciting quotes from the vendor community to provide instructor-led training courses in mainframe training curriculum for state staff. Class topics include basic COBOL programming, introduction to JCL, ADABAS fundamentals, beginning DB2, Z/OS, and more.
The Prison Industry Authority was established 33 years ago by law to provide work opportunities for offenders in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation system. About 7,000 prisoners have work assignments manufacturing goods and services such as food and clothing, license plates office furniture and more.
The annual awards recognize California state and local government and education organizations for their dedication, hard work and contributions in information technology.
The service will be accessed from the campus using zero clients and desktops running Virtual Desktop Infrastructure client software with peripherals. VPN and firewall services are needed to provide secure network connections from the data center to specific Internet resources.
California is seeking a contractor to provide "intake implementation readiness support services" for 25,000 users across the state who will use a new child welfare system. The Child Welfare System — New System (CWS-NS) is one of California’s largest IT modernization efforts, and its intake system will be one of the first parts developed under the project's revamped approach, which is using agile design principles and is divided into multiple bid opportunities, or "modules."
Sacramento is joining dozens of cities across the country that will bring coders together on Saturday to build solutions for the good of the community. Sacramento's Promise Zone stretches "from Del Paso Heights in the north area to the Avenues in the south county," according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
ITLA is an annual nine-month program focused on developing and extending leadership skills in areas such as strategic planning, networking, collaborative management, IT procurement, contracting, vendor management and more.
California State Parks Interpreter Daniel Williford multi-tasked in a unique way on Thursday morning, narrating a half-hour paddle tour at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve on a video live stream.
The Public Inquiry Unit receives hundreds of web-based complaints, telephone calls and letters every day. The current system relies upon submissions sent through online forms, and each complaint is uploaded into the Correspondence Storage, Tracking and Response (C-STAR) system that has been used for a decade.
