Dennis Noone

The positions are in the Office of Digital Services, which provides GIS/open data, web portals, software engineering and open-source code curation for organizations to provide innovative digital services

The governor drew a parallel between the nascent federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the state’s Office of Digital Innovation: “Our DOGE is spelled ODI,” he said, referring to the arm of the Government Operations Agency that serves as the tip of the spear in California’s…

In a high-level view of the 2025-2026 fiscal year state budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighted technology work and reforms by the Office of Data and Innovation, which is helping lead California’s tech evolution.

The California Department of Transportation spent $12.1 million on its five largest buys of IT goods in 2024. During the same period, its five largest purchases of IT services totaled just under $23 million.

One year earlier, in the fourth quarter of 2023, CHP’s five largest buys of IT goods totaled $22.4 million. The agency’s five largest purchases of IT goods in 2024 totaled $33.2 million.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget includes $322 billion in spending, including several large technology projects and the creation of new agencies to address homelessness and consumer protection.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a balanced state budget would spend $168 million to “standardize and streamline data collection” across state community colleges. It would also create two new entities.

The Employment Development Department’s budget change proposal for the fiscal year that begins July 1, the largest IT-related request filed by a state agency, is intended to continue the EDDNext system modernization initiative.

One position in the Employment Development Department focuses on access and identity management, and the other calls for expertise in network engineering.

FTB’s request, the second-largest IT-related ask among state agencies, would fund ongoing work on Enterprise Data to Revenue, a modernization of the state’s tax-collection technology.