E - Workforce

Statutory text

Government Code section 11546.8, subdivision (f)(2)(E), requires the Report to include:

(E) An analysis of the state’s technology workforce and recommendations for equitable pathways to strengthen the workforce, including the role of CalCompute.

Source: SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8.

Reading list

This list groups the library’s sources for this element by tier. It does not say what the Report will recommend.

Primary (29)

• California Jobs First Economic Blueprint: State strategic sectors (Strengthen, Accelerate, Bet, Anchor) and GO-Biz sector strategies
• California Jobs First homepage: State regional economic program, 13 regions, council of nine agencies co-chaired by GO-Biz and LWDA
• California Jobs First regions: The 13 economic regions, their plans and the Regional Data Tool
• California Report on Frontier AI Policy 2025-06-17: The working group report does not mention CalCompute in the excerpt.
• CCC ISTI 25-300-01 AI Literacy: The CCC system has a written AI literacy standard: the PEOPLE framework, six competencies for all students, faculty and staff.
• CCC ISTI 25-300-02 AI Safety and Security: The California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor’s Office tells colleges to test agentic AI in isolated sandboxes.
• CCC ISTI 26-300-01 Digital Identity Verification: The CCC system requires digital identity verification for students, from August 2026.
• CCC ISTI 26-300-02 CCCStart Supplemental Data Collection: Sept. 22, 2026: ask only what admission needs; new questions go through central review and an approved list.
• CCC ISTI memos index: Four ISTI memos; one new, 26-300-02. Lists the pages taken.
• CDT IT Classification Mapping: State IT jobs in six domains map to IT Technician to Manager II; Machine Learning Engineer and Cloud Architect are state titles.
• CDT workforce development: Training center for public sector IT staff: academies, a GenAI Boot Camp, no research computing course.
• Executive Order N-6-26: Directive 9 set a deadline of “No later than October 15, 2026” for the Government Operations Agency (GovOps).
• Fei-Fei Li Senate testimony 2023-09-14 (web): Fei-Fei Li tells a U.S. Senate committee that compute and data needs leave frontier AI to “a select few industry players”. She backs the National AI Research Resource.
• Governor AI working group release 2025-03-18: The release announces the draft of the Governor’s working group report.
• Governor economy tops 4.5 trillion 2026-10-05 (web): California output tops $4.5 trillion in 2025 (BEA) and “remains” the fourth-largest economy. No CalCompute.
• Governor TIME Person of the Year made in California 2025-12-12 (web): “33 of the 50 top AI companies”, 15.7% of U.S. AI job postings, and over half of global AI venture capital in the Bay Area. No CalCompute.
• Jobs First 2025 results release: $1.6 billion in 2025; 142,000 trained, 61,000 jobs; ETP, apprenticeship and HRTP channels
• Newsom SB-53 signing release 2025-09-29: The release describes CalCompute in one line, under “Innovation”.
• NSF 26-508 TechAccess solicitation (web)
• NSF 26-513 solicitation: NSF AI Infrastructure Hubs: one award per state, first deadline Nov. 4, 2026; partners fund five years of compute, NSF funds staff and training
• Pathways to College in California: C2C data story on students from high school to college and work, by district
• SB 1047 CalCompute section 2024-08-29: SB 1047’s CalCompute section: the same elements as SB-53, report due Jan. 1, 2026; vetoed
• SB-53 Assembly Privacy analysis 2025-07-08: The committee’s summary of the bill (items 17 to 28) already matches the enacted § 11546.8 almost item for item.
• SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8: The statute: Gov. Code § 11546.8, subdivisions (a) to (k), word for word. The base of every definition.
• SB-53 Senate GO analysis 2025-03-25: Excerpt of the CalCompute passages of the Senate Governmental Organization analysis. The full copy is the (web) page.
• SB-53 Senate GO analysis 2025-03-25 (web): The first committee analysis of SB 53. It has the enacted mission, UC placement and seven elements, with the March appointment scheme. It says “This bill does not establish CalCompute” and records no opposition.
• SB-53 Senate Judiciary analysis 2025-04-08
• UC Regents B4 Update on AI 2026-09-16: UC is scoping its own “Sovereign AI Cloud”, UC-owned and UC-governed. It does not name CalCompute.
• Wiener SB 294 announcement 2023-09-13

Peer-reviewed (3)

• LeMahieu 2017 Networked improvement communities: Abstract only: six principles of networked improvement communities (Carnegie Foundation)
• PEARC 2025 Cultivating Computational Equity Central Valley: CENVAL-ARC: Central Valley campuses use under 0.05% of ACCESS allocations; training and shared infrastructure
• Sommerhoff 2018 What Do We Teach When We Teach the Learning Sciences: 75 learning sciences graduate programs: technology for learning is the most common concept

Institutional (14)

• AI Singapore AIAP page (web): AIAP: paid AI apprenticeship of 6 or 9 months; 90% placed in AI roles
• Cal-ICOR About: Partners (UC Berkeley lead, Learning Lab, 2i2c) and five named staff.
• Cal-ICOR homepage: 1,907 students this term and 4,369 all time (UC 275, CSU 1,497, CCC 134); Learning Lab supports it; “Free”. Lists the pages taken.
• Cal-ICOR Partner With Us: 20 partner institutions (15 CSU, 2 UC, 3 CCC) and a four-step onboarding with a choice of support model.
• CENVAL-ARC homepage: UC Merced-led regional research computing network; NSF CC* award; symposium March 2027
• CITRIS UC Santa Cruz leadership and staff: Director Katia Obraczka, Executive Director Michael Matkin; CIDER drone program employs trained students.
• CITRIS UC Santa Cruz programs: Campus-only seed grants (I2P) and student Tech for Social Good grants.
• CloudBank at Berkeley: 2020 UC Berkeley data science college (CDSS) news: NSF CloudBank (SDSC, UC Berkeley) brokers public cloud for research and teaching
• CMU Policy Innovation Lab: Heinz College course page: students build public interest technology for government clients; no compute facts
• SDSC NAIRR Operations Center launch: NSF chose SDSC to lead the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Operations Center.
• UC ANR Cooperative Extension
• UC OSPO Network education resources: 43 curated open source lessons from six UC campuses; aggregated curriculum model for E
• UN Open Source Week 2025 Conference Report: RISE report: the GDC recognizes open access to compute; OSPOs succeed by mandate and authority, not tools.
• UN OSET and UNDP 2024 DPI Safeguards: This is a United Nations framework for safe and inclusive digital public infrastructure (DPI).

Trade (1)

• Granted AI on NSF 26-508: This is a vendor blog post that sells a grant-writing product.

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