Colorado is embarking on an Information Technology management consolidation effort which will realign Information Technology management within the State of Colorado from a series of functions managed in a distributed manner to an enterprise function managed from a centralized perspective.

Colorado's comprehensive State Homeland Security Strategy outlines the direction for our prevention, protection, response and recovery efforts for the next five years (2008-2013). This is a complex endeavor which requires shared responsibility by all partners. In addition, it requires coordination, cooperation, and focused effort from the entire state and its many local, regional, tribal, non-profit, private sector, and federal partners and every...

The State of Colorado has the desire to ensure Coloradans receive government services in a way that is most convenient for them. It is expected that mobile technologies will connect to over 10 billion devices by 2016. Tablets are predicted to overtake laptop sales by that same year. We are clearly moving toward a mobile society and government needs to bring their services and applications to that platform as quickly as possible. To this end, the State...

A significant energy conservation opportunity exists within Colorado's new and existing building electrical systems. Dry-type transformers are commonly utilized within a large building's electrical distribution system. While transformers are relatively efficient, delivering over 95% of their input power, they are constantly energized; consequently, electrical losses are constant.

Technology innovation is taking place at lightning speed, giving businesses and government advantages to decrease time to market by leveraging solutions such as cloud technologies. The incredible adoption rate of mobile technologies gives the government more opportunities to connect remotely with citizens and offer our workforce better accessibility to applications and data - anytime, anywhere. The Enterprise Architecture compass will set the direction...