Florida Department of Environmental Protection
DEP’s legislative budget request covers several tech-related items, including application infrastructure support services and implementing a user-friendly SaaS system.
The role entails providing Oracle database support and solutions for the agency, plus overseeing all planning, designing, modeling, monitoring, testing, operating and maintaining database management systems.
The incumbent of this position will direct and manage the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s customer support services program area and any assigned staff from the agency’s IT office.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is seeking information on implementing an enterprise system to possibly replace Oculus, which it has been using since the previous millennium.
Gov. Ron DeSantis recently shared several updates on how state agencies are responding to the storm, including pre-staging Starlink units and activating the State Emergency Operations Center.
Well above the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s second-quarter 2023 spending, the money was used for networking software, information technology consulting and license management software.
The state’s environmental protection agency is looking to hire a programming consultant to help support, maintain and enhance more than 120 agency business applications.
The ideal candidate would provide Oracle database support and solutions for the agency under the department’s Office of Technology and Information Services.
The recently launched portal allows eligible entities to submit proposals that help protect and restore the state’s water resources under various grant categories, including water restoration and innovative technology for harmful algae blooms.
In the first quarter of the year, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection procured goods and services from Environmental Risk Management Inc., Advanced Environmental Technologies LLC, Titan Facilities Inc., and more.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis reviews the state Legislature’s recently published $117.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2024-2025, Industry Insider — Florida has reviewed the 524-page document outlining potential tech funding for various state agencies.
Specific purchases of IT services by the Department of Environmental Protection in 2023 included $500,938 for information technology consultation services.
Scott McPherson, former CIO of the Florida House of Representatives, and Martin Stevens, CIO of the Department of Environmental Protection, met with members followed by a Q&A in Tallahassee this week.
The state’s environmental management and stewardship agency oversees 175 state parks and more than 12 million acres of public lands and has an estimated annual IT budget of $149.6 million.
The members-only event will feature the CIO of the Department of Environmental Protection and the former CIO of the Florida House of Representatives.
Over the next few years, the agency will focus on increasing data literacy, developing tools to assist with data acquisition, migrating applications to the cloud and modernizing its application platform.
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