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- The Department of Cannabis Control is asking the Legislature for money to support IT enhancements and comply with recently signed legislation.
- Assembly Bill 8 created new oversight and enforcement mandates for the department that will require funding and resources.
- The department has also issued an RFP for a new Laboratory Information Management System Replacement project, with bids due in March.
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Desirable qualifications include experience and knowledge in IT project management best practices, including the management and oversight of critical projects and efforts to ensure efficient and effective delivery of unique IT products, services and systems.
The county recently announced the new website, which tracks broadband expansion projects across the region.
The county will be seeking a commercial, off-the-shelf solution to replace its legacy CMS. The RFP is planned to be issued this summer, with an expected award coming in early 2025.
The pressure cooker that was the pandemic stress-tested almost every aspect of the Employment Development Department. Those painful lessons are being used as the fuel for modernization.
“We are proud of Jeff’s extraordinary accomplishments and look forward to working with more government agencies to eliminate fraud and enable equitable and inclusive access to critical services for all Americans,” said Matt Thompson, Socure’s senior vice president and general manager for public sector.
The spending by the California Air Resources Board was for services including consulting, reporting and software, and the five largest categories within those codes accounted for $23,470,961, with rounding, according to the Procurement Division of the Department of General Services.
The department is making a push to improve its customer service by hiring a consultant focused on the user experience.
The government payments platform provider has also put a new executive team in place, including Chief Operating Officer Chris Lewis, Chief Technology Officer Andy Brooks and Chief Innovation Officer Alan Pyrz.
The leadership and specialty positions are among recruitments by the Employment Development Department and the California Department of Transportation.
Closing the state’s now $27.6 billion budget shortfall will sting no matter how fast the Band-Aid gets pulled off. Here’s what the most recent iteration of the governor’s proposed budget could mean for IT spending.
The trains, from Swiss manufacturer Stadler, are slated to go into use in San Bernardino County.
In a request for proposals issued May 9, the court system called for vendor proposals to outfit six courthouses with multilingual wayfinding kiosks.
Dave Jenkins, a nearly 30-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol and its new technology leader, has held a wide variety of positions with the department. These include supervisory roles in three commands.
Silicon Valley is seeing even more job cuts, this time from search engine giant Google and Tesla competitor Rivian Automotive.
From new contracting requirements around Internet service providers to cybersecurity metrics, this session has seen a lot of IT-related bills. Have any survived the journey thus far? Yes. Yes, they have.
Five vendors have been tapped to explore possible use cases for generative AI across several agencies and priority areas.
Held at the UC Berkeley Haas Business School, the hackathon hosted 206 on-site and remote participants who collaborated and prototyped solutions to enhance citizen engagement and harness digital innovation for better governance.
Those wishing to tune in to Newsom’s address may do so beginning at 11 a.m. by going to @CAgovernor on X (formerly Twitter), the “California Governor” Facebook page, or the governor’s YouTube channel.
Applicants should have experience in Microsoft SQL Server database administration, as well as database design and modeling and knowledge of APIs and gateways.
The state said 15,000 people signed up in the first three months. When KFF Health News asked how many of those users actively engaged with the app, it declined to say, noting that data would be released this summer.
From new rules for AI to small-business contracting thresholds, this session has seen a lot of IT-related bills. Have any survived the journey thus far?
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