California Technology Agency Secretary Carlos Ramos spoke to the technology industry in California at the 8th annual TechAmerica / Deltek Executive Briefing.
After its second meeting last week, the Budget Solutions Task Force, created to review and potentially cancel private-sector contracts to save money, has taken steps to narrow its focus to the SEIU Local 1000 union’s top five priority contracts, state and union officials have confirmed.
Sacramento-based M Corp has won $2.05 million in new IT contracts with the Employment Development Department, State Controller’s Office, California Department of Health Care Services and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, according to an article posted today on sacbee.com.
The California Health Benefit Exchange has awarded a $1.1 million, 2-year contract to Folsom-based Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP) to independently oversee the development of the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System (CalHEERS), an official from the Exchange confirmed today.
Governor Brown has signed legislation that will make the flexible allowances for IT contracts and withholding decisions permanent, removing a sunset provision set to expire in 2013, the governor’s office announced today.
California was awarded a $196 million federal grant to help establish the state’s Health Benefit Exchange, including design of the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System (CalHEERS), the Exchange announced yesterday.
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has released the latest draft of regulations to implement the Green Chemistry Initiative, a massive chemicals management system with the potential to affect nearly all firms that manufacture or sell consumer products in California.
Technology Agency Secretary Carlos Ramos, Department of General Services Director Fred Klass and Assemblymember Joan Buchanan will speak at this year’s annual TechAmerica / Deltek Executive Briefing, the agency announced on Friday.
Chairman Dan Lungren (R-CA) of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies will address California state information security officers next week at a meeting in Downtown Sacramento, a spokesman for Lungren confirmed.
HP announced on Wednesday that the Silicon Valley company is reorganizing its enterprise services division with the departure of John Visentin who is being replaced by Senior VP Mike Nefkens, on an acting basis, who will report directly to CEO Meg Whitman.
As the State of California conducts its billion dollar procurement for the CALNET 3 contract to provide the next generation of telecommunications services for state and local agencies, the Technology Agency is making efforts to increase the vendor pool to include more bidders, including small and mid-sized companies as prime contractors, according to Deputy Director Russ Guarna.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) does more with less in part by giving employees immediate access to current, accurate, and consistent information with which to make better, data-driven decisions. To achieve this access and availability, CDCR created collaboration and business information portals by using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007. Early adopters used business analytics and desktop productivity tools to enhance internal business processes and increase productivity. CDCR decentralized the portals, enabling its business units to customize workflows and document management processes that increased operational efficiency by 400 percent, compared to using hypertext webpages. The CDCR’s Enterprise Information Services division now creates and expands collaboration team sites in half the time and at half the cost needed with a previous web content platform.
A technology project that makes efficient use of taxpayer data has generated $100 million in state revenue in its first year, the Franchise Tax Board announced this week.
The California Broadband Council will hold its next meeting on August 14 in Sacramento at the State Capitol. Below are details and agenda information posted on broadband.ca.gov.
Adrian Farley, chief information officer for the Attorney General’s Office and the California Department of Justice will appear on Techleader.TV on August 9, according to show host John Thomas Flynn. Tune in at 11:30 a.m. here.
Longtime state IT executive Gail Overhouse has been appointed chief information officer at the Employment Development Department, according to a staff announcement from Director Pam Harris.
The city of Sacramento will save tens of thousands of staff hours and $500,000 in annual operational costs after switching to a new EMC based document management system, the corporate IT firm announced on Monday.
Former Dept. of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) CIO Davood Ghods has been appointed deputy director for Enterprise Information Services at the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to a memo to staff from Agency CIO Joe Panora.
