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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill from Assemblymember Ed Chau requiring law enforcement agencies to apply for a search warrant if they intend to use software to track a person's movements — expanding the definition of a tracking device to reflect the usage of current technologies.
Government technology veteran Abhi Nemani, who has experience both inside government as well as with prominent civic tech organizations such as Code for America, is leading the new startup company.
The state departments of Public Health (CDPH) and Technology (CDT) are working together again — this time with the California Department of General Services, on a Request for Innovative Ideas for COVID-19 Test Specimen Collection and Transport, a procurement reminiscent of Gov. Gavin Newsom's Request for Innovative Ideas (RFI2).
David Noronha, the longtime chief information officer at the California Department of Insurance, discusses how the role of CIO at his department has changed, how technology has increased the pace of change, and major IT initiatives.
Craig Russell, who's worked with several major IT companies, will be focusing on state government in his new role with Oracle.
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The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services' top five purchases of IT goods in August reflect its ongoing need for training, disaster recovery and software development.
The IT chief for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority said in a Techwire Member Briefing that innovation is more important than ever as the bus/rail agency navigates COVID-19 restrictions and seeks to bolster its cybersecurity and data-sharing capabilities.
The position comes with “sensitive and technically complex assignments,” the job posting says, and includes responsibility for policy and program management, risk management and incident response.
“Asking the major service providers to step up has failed, and California, as the fifth-largest economy in the world, should not have to run around, tin cup in hand, begging for broadband.”
State technology and emergency agencies have re-released an updated Request for Proposal, seeking vendors to provide cybersecurity services in connection with California's new Next-Generation 911 system.
The California departments of Public Health (CDPH) and Technology (CDT) are working with two University of California campuses to pilot a COVID-19 exposure notification app recently released by Apple and Google. The pilot's success will be a determiner on whether the state makes the technology "available to all people statewide," CDT Director and state Chief Information Officer Amy Tong said in a statement, noting residents would still have to opt in.
Wondering what technology companies wanted to know at last week's California Department of Motor Vehicles vendor day? Here are several of their questions and the department's responses, on everything from the technology stack to how field office appointments are booked and what self-service tech is available there.
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The positions are in recruitment by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the California Department of Social Services.
With the county’s army of manual contact tracers working in the background, L.A. leaders are betting that any additional contact tracing helps — even if that help comes from a tech company whose approach to public safety has come under fire.
California’s colleges, backed by support from the Governor’s Office and the tech industry, are continuing to refine a cybersecurity curriculum designed to guide students of all ages into careers in information technology and related fields.
Development of a new system to run alongside the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE) is still in early stages, but a state department offered additional details on how it will assist in the receipt, handling, storage and analysis of COVID-19 data received from local agencies.
As San Joaquin County prepares to shift its data backup to a revolutionary barge berthed in the Port of Stockton, it’s also looking to 5G networking, enterprise technology and a cybersecurity focus in the next three years — a potential heads-up to vendors who represent products in those areas.
Chaeny Emanavin, director of the Office of Innovation at the California Health and Human Services Agency, discusses the merger of his office into a new entity, with an enhanced emphasis on data-driven decision-making, better service delivery and looking ahead.
San Diego’s $30 million Smart Streetlights project was initially introduced to the public in 2016 as a plan to upgrade LED lights to save money and energy. They included streetlight-mounted cameras and technologically advanced sensors with the ability to turn video images of cars and people into valuable data the city could use.
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Forrester just published The Forrester Wave — Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, an independent evaluation of 14 vendors in the CNAPP market. Wiz was named the Leader and received the highest score!
Technological innovation in artificial intelligence has shifted. For the better part of a decade, AI operated within tightly bounded constraints: classifying images, generating text, and using these capabilities to surface recommendations. While these systems were powerful, they were fundamentally passive. They needed to receive a prompt in order to return a result. Once the result was achieved, the system stopped.
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