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The California Department of Technology and the Franchise Tax Board are both looking for leadership for critical technology programs.
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Solutions that were part of the initiative helped state and local agencies work more efficiently in wildfire cleanup and recovery.
Mayor Sam Liccardo has heatedly criticized the utility for this month's outage that affected 60,000 of his city's residents, and he's looking at a broad slate of alternatives. PG&E's recent outage cost San Jose $500,000, Liccardo estimated. He wants to find state or PG&E funding to reimburse taxpayers.
Two state agencies are working together to pick a vendor for what’s “expected to be the largest benefit solution in the country” — a streamlined, integrated system to replace an aging legacy infrastructure.
State agencies, local governments, private-sector businesses and even residents should follow time-honored strategies in guarding against cybercrime, a state official said recently, explaining how his agency is part of that process.
Leaders say the government veteran, who most recently managed the state's DMV Strike Team, is "a problem solver" and "pulls no punches."
Californians face an Oct. 1, 2020, deadline to obtain the federally mandated Real ID, and the agency responsible for leading that effort has issued a call for vendor solutions to make it happen.
Sonoma County needed a solution for data management — and then the fires of October 2017 struck. The county chief innovation officer and two vendors explain how an urgent need led to an elegant solution.
During the premiere DMV Vendor Day, agency officials discussed with vendors how they hope to make the department more technologically modern and responsive to residents, less than a year before the federal Real ID deadline.
Departments including the California Highway Patrol and the State Water Resources Control Board are seeking IT expertise for key positions.
Local Motors, which makes the Olli AV shuttle, will partner with both GoMentum, an enormous vehicle test site in the Bay Area, and AAA Northern California to further fine-tune connected-vehicle technology around small, electric shuttles, making the vehicles perhaps the most promising form of autonomous transportation in the near term.
The agency is giving vendors about two weeks to submit their concepts. After vetting, some will be invited to make their product pitch to state officials and venture capitalists.
In addition to receiving alerts, the app also turns an individual’s cellphone into a mini-seismograph of sorts, using the built-in accelerometer found in most smartphones and recording and transmitting that data to state authorities. The more people download and use the app, the more data is produced, making measurements and damage reports more precise.
The agreement, reached in August and launched in September, will allow Comcast to swap out the DMV’s computer network. It aims to improve the speed at which the department can use the Internet and process customer transactions. The DMV says the upgrade will save the department about $3 million each year.
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The move comes several months after an official was unable to determine whether the technology had actually helped reduce crime.
The city has been a fertile testing ground for new technologies — rental electric scooters, dockless bikes and sandwich-delivery robots — but now the Board of Supervisors is poised to start regulating emerging technology's access to public thoroughfares.
The Sacramento Urban Technology Lab's grant program will focus on building out the Internet of Things and cybersecurity, mobility and health IT, and life sciences verticals in the SUTL framework.
The IT Business Analysis Manager will be responsible for “the design, development, integration, implementation and administration of the IT business analysis process including business process mapping and process documentation ...”
The role will help the agency modernize information assets and foster a data-driven mission.
Municipal needs this time around include calls from one Southern California city for solutions in the areas of housing, city hiring and communication. The application process for startups is open through Nov. 20.
License-plate readers used by Redlands police have caught about 20 vehicles involved in crimes, including residential and commercial burglary, nighttime window smashes at restaurants, and hit-and-runs. Another new technology, GPS tracking, has helped police catch hundreds.
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