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Liana Bailey-Crimmins, CIO and director of the California Department of Technology, announced late Friday afternoon that she is leaving the role.
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California is updating the state’s transit plan, which is a portion of the Statewide Transit Strategic Plan, to include changing transportation technology. The update will be completed in the spring.
Database management and digital security are key priorities for 2018, says the CIO of a state board with a $13 million annual budget.
Two IT veterans whose experience includes agile development have joined the state's Child Welfare Digital Services project as product management advisers.
A state office is planning to publish an RFI next week for Identity and Access Management solutions. The information will offer insights into potential problems with an identity management system and its implementation.
Caltrain, the Altamont Corridor Express and Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor have all installed some or all of the equipment required for positive train control and expect to be testing the systems in 2018. Officials of all three rail lines said they expect to meet the deadlines.
Jennifer Benson, CIO of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, outlines for Techwire her department's goals and priorities for the coming year.
The Women, Infants and Children Electronic Benefit Transfer project has seen several changes in the last few weeks.
Today's Techwire is the last until after the long Christmas weekend. Publication of the daily newsletter and updates to the website will resume Wednesday. The Techwire staff wishes our readers a happy and safe holiday season.
The state Legislative Analyst's Office has recommended that the Legislature clarify and affirm the mission of the California Department of Technology’s Project Management Office, which it says should eliminate a potential conflict of interest and tackle bigger, more complex projects.
USC Marshall School of Business and Viterbi School of Engineering, along with the city of Los Angeles, have formed the Intelligent Internet-of-Things Integrator to further collaborate on projects related to IoT testing and development. LA CIO Ted Ross is among those touting the I3 Consortium.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has named 19 regional innovation experts to his Tech Council, which will advise the Mayor’s Office for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MOFIE) on tech issues as they relate to economic development.
With the departure this week of John Boule as director of California’s Office of Systems Integration, Rebecca Stilling, a familiar face in state government, is coming in to serve as acting director.
Editor’s note: Following is one in an ongoing series of profiles of the largest California state government agencies.
Los Angeles hopes to involve minority firms in a big way in procurement related to the 2028 Olympics — but there are major hurdles it must first overcome.
The state Department of Technology has published "Nine Myths About Agile." On Tuesday, Techwire published Myth 1. Today, we publish Myths 2-9.
Two Sacramento-area firms — one specializing in cloud services, and the other in data science and machine learning — have formed an exclusive partnership to detect fraud in California’s community colleges. Infiniti Consulting Group and SeyVu have already landed two contracts with the California community college system and are hoping to win two more in 2018, said Scott Drossos, president of Infiniti.
The California Department of Technology is bullish on GitHub, the open-source code repository, and sees it helping with IT cost efficiencies in state government.
Sac State, city and regional transit officials plan to make a pitch early in 2018 to tech firms for help in figuring out how to put a shuttle system together.
The Bureau of Cannabis Control issued the first round of temporary licenses for commercial cannabis businesses on Thursday, almost 18 days ahead of the Jan. 1 project deadline.
The city of Palo Alto's CIO Jonathan Reichental has launched a video series to recruit new government technologists. Dubbed Technology and Data Careers in Government, installments in this series are one hour long.
On Tuesday, Supervisor David Canepa asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a resolution that calls on Congress and the United Nations to restrict the development and use of autonomous weapons. The resolution was withdrawn on the same day.
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