Tardy April Fools’ Day! It’s Florida, not California. Sounds familiar though. California killed its Technology Agency in early 2012. One of Governor Browns first acts of his young, second administration. Unanimous approval in the House Appropriations Committee was a ‘disappointing’ development for agency leaders. The […]
New bill to axe technology agency moves forward
April 20th, 2017 by admin
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Tags: California Technology Agency, Colin Wood, Florida Agency for State Technology (AST), John Thomas Flynn, State Abolishes Technology Agency, StateScoop, TechLeader.TV
New bill to axe technology agency moves forward
Drones Monitor Construction Workers’ Productivity on Sac Kings’ New Arena
August 27th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: California Technology Agency, Drones monitor construction progress, John Thomas Flynn, MIT Technology Review, Sacramento Kings Arena, Will Knight
Drones Monitor Construction Workers’ Productivity on Sac Kings’ New Arena
Is there anything drones can’t do? Monitoring progress, safety and design consistency as well… Drones are being used to capture video footage that shows construction progress at the Sacramento Kings’ new stadium in California. For some construction workers, any thoughts of slacking off could soon […]
VOD TechLeader.TV with Elaine Howle, California State Auditor; SEPT 15, 2015; 11:30 AM PT
August 24th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: BreEZe, Brown Administration, California Department of Technology, California State Auditor, California Technology Agency, Elaine Howle, FI$CAL, state computer system
VOD TechLeader.TV with Elaine Howle, California State Auditor; SEPT 15, 2015; 11:30 AM PT
Next Program SEPT 15, 2015 with Elaine Howle California State Auditor Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn Elaine M. Howle is California’s independent State Auditor who serves the State of California by providing accurate, unbiased, and timely assessments of financial and operation aspects of […]
California State Government Email Addresses Linked to Spouse Cheating Ashley Madison Site
August 24th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: Ashley Madison, California Technology Agency, John Thomas Flynn, State government email abuse, TechLeader.TV, government computer misuse
California State Government Email Addresses Linked to Spouse Cheating Ashley Madison Site
Certain state & local government officials spent an uneasy weekend as reports circulated last Friday that their email addresses were found on the unfaithful spouses’ social media website Ashley Madison which had been recently hacked. State IT security officials were reportedly circulating a database list […]
Open Data Demo Day AUG 26th – Rally for Establishing a Chief Data Officer for State of California
August 12th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: California Chief Data Officer, California Data Demo day, California Technology Agency, Data Coalition, John Thomas Flynn, Richard Pan, SB573, TechLeader.TV
Open Data Demo Day AUG 26th – Rally for Establishing a Chief Data Officer for State of California
This should be an interesting event highlighting the merits of Sen. Richard Pan’s Bill SB573 to create an Open Data portal for state government information spearheaded by a new Chief Data Officer (CDO) reporting directly to the Governor. August 26, 9 AM – noon, in […]
State CIO Letter to BOE/CROS Officials Explains Reasoning for Delaying Project
July 16th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: BOE tax Modernization, Brown Administration, CROS Project, California Technology Agency, Carlos Ramos, Eric Steen, John Thomas Flynn, Jon Ortiz, TechLeader.TV, state computer system
State CIO Letter to BOE/CROS Officials Explains Reasoning for Delaying Project
It appears that the rationale for the State CIO to delay BOE’s Centralized Revenue Opportunity System (CROS) Project, preventing CROS officials from releasing their RFP earlier this month as they had planned, was the lack of a “master schedule”. As State CIO Carlos Ramos wrote: […]
CROS Project Director Blasts Tech Oversight Agency for $3 Million Procurement Delay
July 16th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: Brown Administration, CROS Project, California Technology Agency, Carlos Ramos, Eric Steen, John Thomas Flynn, Marybel Batjer, State Technology Approval Reform (STAR), TechLeader.TV, california Project Approval Lifecycle
CROS Project Director Blasts Tech Oversight Agency for $3 Million Procurement Delay
Warns that CalTech interference will increase likelihood of implementation schedule slippage, project cost escalation, even leading “down the road to another failed state IT project.” Some may consider the cost of this delay just a deck chair on the Titanic, as the currently budgeted $309 […]
Fed’s Digital Pearl Harbor Demands Appropriate State of California Action
June 17th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: Brown Administration, California Technology Agency, Digital Pearl Harbor, John Thomas Flynn, State of california cybersecurity, State of california data breaches, TechLeader.TV, state computer systems
Fed’s Digital Pearl Harbor Demands Appropriate State of California Action
Back in the late 1990’s when I was State CIO, our team at Department of Information Technology (DOIT) was responsible for addressing the “dreaded” Year 2000 issue affecting state computers systems. Led by longtime state employee Claudina Nevis DOIT oversaw the identification of, and mitigation […]
Alan Friedman Alert: NASCIO Releases Unmanned Aerial Systems Policy Brief
May 28th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: California Technology Agency, John Thomas Flynn, NASCIO drones, TechLeader.TV, UAS
Alan Friedman Alert: NASCIO Releases Unmanned Aerial Systems Policy Brief
The audience laughed when your TechLeader.TV host asked OTech Director Davood Ghods at a conference last year if he was contemplating a new MSA for drones. Not for the first time, TechLeader.TV was prescient. NASCIO released a policy brief on state government use of unmanned […]
Highlights:TechLeader.TV on Procurement – Bid Sync going away; Final Calnet3 Categories RFP/IFB’s coming, may disappoint some; Vendor performance scorecard coming in 2015 & new incentive-based contracting under consideration; STAR makes FSR’s go away – in 2015?? Statewide Technology Procurement Division’s (STPD) big five procurements for 2015 & more…
February 3rd, 2015 by admin
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Tags: Brown Administration, CES Mail, CWS, California IT procurement, California Technology Agency, EBT3, Jim Butler, Marnell Voss, State Technology Approval Reform (STAR), TechLeader.TV, WIC
Highlights:TechLeader.TV on Procurement – Bid Sync going away; Final Calnet3 Categories RFP/IFB’s coming, may disappoint some; Vendor performance scorecard coming in 2015 & new incentive-based contracting under consideration; STAR makes FSR’s go away – in 2015?? Statewide Technology Procurement Division’s (STPD) big five procurements for 2015 & more…
Our TLTV show focusing on State of California procurement had many highlights: Regardless of FI$CAL Rollout problems, State Procurement still scheduled to switchover from Bid Sync on July 1, 2015. Will state be ready? Are vendors prepared? CalNet3 remaining categories for wireless and satellite voice […]