G - Public Sector Workforce

Statutory text

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

(G) Recommendations regarding how the creation and ongoing management of CalCompute can prioritize the use of the current public sector workforce.

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 (27)

• California Executive Branch org chart 2025-11-04: The state executive branch and its heads, as of Nov. 4, 2025.
• 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
• CDT About the Department: CDT oversees state IT planning, projects, procurement and standards; runs the State Data Center; Director is State CIO.
• CDT AI community of practice: State AI forum since 2024 with UC and CSU speakers; Vera Zakem and Deirdre Mulligan in May 2025.
• CDT career opportunities: CDT hires by state exam and classification through CalCareer; links the IT classification map.
• CDT executive team: CDT’s 12 executives, with Chris Given as CIO and Vera Zakem as Chief Technology and Innovation Officer.
• CDT homepage: Thin homepage: Poppy, middle mile, Digital ID; training and AI community links. 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 appointments 2026-08-19: The Governor appoints Ayushi Roy State Chief Technology Officer at CDT.
• GovOps departments: 15 entities; CalHR sets job classifications and training; Learning Lab is a state grantmaker.
• GovOps homepage: GovOps oversees 16 departments, including CDT, CalHR and Learning Lab; leads AI oversight. Lists the pages taken.
• GovOps more efficient California
• GovOps vision mission and goals: Goal 1: “Develop the State Workforce”.
• Jobs First 2025 results release: $1.6 billion in 2025; 142,000 trained, 61,000 jobs; ETP, apprenticeship and HRTP channels
• NSF 26-508 TechAccess solicitation (web)
• ODI homepage (web): ODI: data, design and technology for departments; Governor’s Innovation Fellows
• Poppy overview: Poppy is a generative AI (GenAI) platform that CDT built for state employees.
• Poppy service page: CDT charges state departments for Poppy.
• 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.

Institutional (7)

• ACCESS Our impact: ACCESS reports 67,925 “Users with an allocation” and 2,055 “Research institutions served” since its launch in September 2022.
• CMU Policy Innovation Lab: Heinz College course page: students build public interest technology for government clients; no compute facts
• CRB Prytaneum brief
• CROSS About: Founded 2015 with a $2M gift and three founding industry members; leadership, advisory board and stakeholder benefits. No fees or member rights.
• CROSS homepage: Thin homepage; CROSS funds student open source projects and works with the six-campus UC OSPO Network. Lists the pages taken.
• UC ANR Cooperative Extension
• UN Open Source Week 2026 agenda: AI day sessions on public AI infrastructure and open source GenAI governance; UC Santa Cruz on a university OSPO panel.

Trade (1)

• StateScoop California CTO Ayushi Roy: Roy replaces Jonathan Porat; CIO Chris Given’s priorities include digital identity and AI.

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