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The California Department of Technology has partnered with Gartner to better prepare incoming department-level CIOs for the job ahead of them. The inaugural run of the invitation-only program will host 25 IT leaders from 24 departments.
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Departments should direct all contractors with agreements valued at $5 million or more to desist from “making new investments in, or engaging in financial transactions with, Russian entities, not transferring technology to Russia or Russian entities, and directly providing support to the government and people of Ukraine.”
The California Department of Public Health’s costliest IT goods purchases in February included expenses for hardware and software, in areas including threat prevention and deception.
“Alpha’s culture, tools, technology and systems thinking approach to operations is something California’s (Technology Modernization Fund) participants should adopt if it’s going to realize a return on that $25 million investment.”
“My title is security engineering manager for SLED, but I’m covering the West and Central regions at this point,” Weaver told Techwire. He said Check Point’s public-sector vertical “now covers our federal teams, our public-sector teams and our education teams, so fed/SLED, essentially.”
The requests from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are among 39 budget change proposals, several of which would pay for IT projects.
Despite a request last August from the chancellor’s office that all 116 California community colleges report on enrollment fraud involving fake student bots, nearly 40 percent of campuses failed to submit any information, deepening concerns among the Board of Governors.
The state Franchise Tax Board is seeking an assistant bureau director; the California Workforce Development Board is seeking a business intelligence developer; and San Francisco Digital Services is recruiting for a technical director to lead the engineering team.
State entities seeking consideration for the money should propose projects with “clear, concrete goals, a viable and quick path to delivery, and strong support from the requesting entity’s executive leadership,” the California Department of Technology says.
In a request for proposal, the California State University Office of the Chancellor is looking for “nonresident alien tax reporting software” capable of being used throughout its statewide system.
State entities with active recruitments include the Department of Conservation, the Employment Development Department and the Department of Community Services and Development.
Legislators this session are proposing bills that would expand and clarify the uses for blockchain and cryptocurrency.
“Lindsey has been an asset since starting with F5,” said Kirsten Donovan, manager of Digital Sales Business Development for F5. “We are excited to see her rise quickly through the ranks and look for the great things headed her way here at F5.”
The following is one in an occasional series of Techwire interviews with “industry influencers” — executives in the private sector whose insights into California’s tech market may benefit their industry peers. Today’s subject is Matthew Kernodle, principal consultant and founder of Port Hueneme-based YB Marketing, which serves as a business-to-government marketing team. YB creates creative content across all customer-facing platforms “to immediately increase your government connections and develop your government contracting opportunities.”
In a new request for qualifications, the large Central Valley municipality wants to hear from companies that can provide IT strategic plan services.
“Mark’s going to just fit right in,” said Karenna Lynn, NTT’s area sales director for California public sector. “I couldn’t be more delighted that he wanted to join my sales team as a client exec in Northern California. I know that he’s going to take really good care of our clients; he already is.”
Christian Farland, the longtime executive with the state public pension fund, will be a client executive with the San Francisco-based company, which specializes in helping executive sponsors in the public and private sectors mesh their people with their mission.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California deepened its deployment of technology from Tanium, to address needs.
Roughly one year after launch, the nonprofit is being used by 10 states including California. The growing government user base may help encourage more vendors to undergo the necessary StateRAMP cybersecurity audits.
The chief engineer will oversee the stakeholders performing project management, engineering, design, system planning, specification, diagramming, mapping, and construction of the network, according to the job posting by the California Department of Technology.
Technology startups in California are addressing the most urgent needs and opportunities in state and local government. Here are five that have drawn the attention of the CivStart Accelerator.
In a new invitation for bid, the California Department of Technology is focusing in on the middle-mile aspect of creating a statewide broadband network.
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