Child Welfare Digital Services

California’s budget position remains tenuous heading into the new year. But work continues on many large state IT projects across the enterprise — here are four of the largest, and their 2026 plans.

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.

Both positions are with entities within the California Health and Human Services Agency — one in the Office of Systems Integration, and the other in the Department of Child Support Services.

The state chief information officer will be moving next month to the Office of Digital Innovation, where she will serve as director, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced Wednesday.

“My goal is to build automation of the infrastructure,” Shamal Siwan says, “to create the DevSecOps culture that is taking security requirements and putting that into a DevOps mindset where automation is the key to unite people, so that everybody follows the same process … so we can ship faster, better, and avoid outages.”