The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation purchased services related to cybersecurity, enterprise data management and software, among other things.
Vendors and other innovators have opportunities to pitch and possibly demonstrate their proposals in the areas of housing, workforce planning and state finance. The window of opportunity for these Requests for Innovative Ideas is six weeks.
The Department of Cannabis Control spent $6.7 million on its five largest buys of IT goods and $1.3 million for its five largest purchases of IT services in the first half of 2024.
Key state departments are doing market research into what tools utilizing generative AI might be used to help the state with several key challenges including homelessness, data use, legislative research and financial efficiency.
Investments in instructional technology are on the rise at California’s university systems, and IT funding is in place for a big move at the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, among other initiatives in this year’s state budget.
The State of Technology: California Industry Forum on Thursday will offer attendees a variety of perspectives from technology leaders across state government.
The scammers, pretending to represent DFPI and the Canadian Securities Administrators, are claiming that they’re holding the target’s crypto asset “cold wallet” — and demanding payment of fees in order to release the funds.
Public-sector panelists at the recent California Digital Government Summit in Sacramento examined what worked well in government technology during the pandemic and how that might continue.
The state entity, created last summer by the California Legislature, has chosen a new chief information officer less than a month before the one-year anniversary of its founding.
The California Department of Consumer Affairs, part of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, awarded seven contracts in the first quarter for IT services. Together, with rounding, those buys totaled $1,334,098.
“I am incredibly excited and very grateful to join this amazing company,” Tyson Heizer told Techwire. “I am truly looking forward to continuing to partner with the state of California to realize their goal of digital transformation with innovative technology.”
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.
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