Developed in-house and released last year, it is among a long list of successes in the commissioner’s Year in Review 2024.
On a serious note, the commissioner praised the IT Division for quickly restoring systems and services during July’s CrowdStrike outage. The report also discloses that the team “thwarted three cyberattacks from international threat actors” during the year.
Another high point: The agency in April started onboarding users to its Texas Automated Nutrition System, the web-based system that will help administer federal programming such as the summer meals program and various school and community food programs. Using a platform developed by the feds, the IT team built it out for TDA use and will manage it in-house, according to its documentation. The rollout is expected to span at least two years, with a large onboarding in 2026.
The Year in Review report translates to a nine-page PDF covering the agency’s broad oversight from crops and pesticides to hemp regulation to the highly visible “GO TEXAN” certified product program.
Among the technical and media highlights:
- Communications added to its public-facing media programming, among them a podcast series called GO TEXAN Explores: The Texas Whiskey Trail. Social media impressions topped 4.5 million, twice that of 2023.
- The organic program implemented payment technology, and fleet management implemented Samsara GPS for data collection and reporting.
- IT was also recognized for training efforts, updating systems, handling about 9,500 service desk tickets and launching the chatbot.
