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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the value of making services available remotely, Acting Chief Information Officer Russ Nichols told attendees at the California Public Sector CIO Academy.

The Inland Empire’s largest municipality recently greenlighted a project to build a 1,690-mile fiber system that would serve as a backbone for the entire city.

The California Department of Consumer Affairs has submitted a budget change proposal seeking several million dollars in funding to continue an ongoing business modernization.

The California departments of General Services and Health Care Services are seeking a contractor to provide certification support services, including an independent, third-party security and privacy control assessment report.

The investigation by the California Department of Motor Vehicles into safety issues is headed into its sixth month with no end in sight.

The department’s five largest buys of IT goods from Jan. 1 through March 31 together totaled $15,244,852 with rounding.

The California Department of Water Resources is conducting airborne electromagnetic surveys via helicopter to map aquifers and improve groundwater management.

The veteran state executive succeeds Dan Kalamaras as OSI chief. The office is part of the California Health and Human Services Agency, of which Dondro is also agency information officer.

Vendor presentations are by invitation, and they’re not open to the public. Interested companies have until June 15 to register for consideration.

As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.

“We are excited to add Twilio to our GSA Schedule and continue to offer top-level solutions to the public sector,” said sales director Bethany Blackwell, who leads the Twilio team at Carahsoft.

The Supply Chain Information Highway, created by the Port of Long Beach, UNCOMN and Amazon Web Services, is now in the proof of concept stage.

“As a founder of Innovia Consulting LLC, I am excited to pursue projects directly with the state as well as team with larger consulting firms as a trusted small-business partner,” Scott Cleland told Industry Insider — California. “We are actively working on several proposals and are looking forward to growing our current client base.”

Jeremy Grant, coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition, said some government officials, especially those in law enforcement, would love to use digital licenses for tracking.

New capabilities to find and fix process inefficiencies will extend Pega’s AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation capabilities.

“One thing that struck me, as I talk to the team and meet everyone, there are a lot of team members that have been part of CDCR for many years, which I think speaks to the level of commitment of the organization’s leadership and support for the team,” Richard Gillespie told Industry Insider — California.

The two tribes will each receive around a half-million dollars to improve Internet access to their members.

A deal for VMware would rank among the biggest-ever acquisitions of a technology company. The industry has been one of the bright spots for bankers in recent months, even as the overall pace of dealmaking slows from 2021’s record pace.

“I believe Databricks has an incredible opportunity to change the way state and local governments and higher-ed institutions manage their data and improve outcomes through data-driven decisions,” Cameron Kahn told Industry Insider — California.

In a new budget change proposal, the Government Operations Agency reveals its plan to merge the Office of Digital Innovation, the Government Excellence and Transformation Center, and the CalData Program into one entity, the Office of Data and Innovation – and how each would function and be staffed.