Below is a sample of a few of the Information Technology (IT) projects currently being managed by the Department of Technology and Information (DTI). DTI’s dedicated staff of project managers, with a cumulative experience of over 250 years in the Information Technology field, supports DTI’s customer Agencies by leading resources to achieve completion of Agency IT initiatives.
These projects are temporary group activities designed to produce a unique IT product, service or result whose origins can be traced to the customer Agency’s primary mission to serve the public.
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Current Status: The Digital Government Platform Foundation program is progressing through the Build phase with the technical integration environment completed on December 4th. Pilot agencies may now confirm connectivity from participating applications and further develop technical and transactional requirements for implementation. Incremental releases will begin in March 2024 with full Go DE portal functionality available in 3Q24.
Current Status: Feedback sessions with a sampling of representatives from centralized and non-centralized agencies, school districts, charter schools, and higher education intitutions are complete. The project team is working to identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will measure the effectiveness of a new system in meeting specific performance objectives while preparing the RFP document. Analysis is also being conducted on the State's other large scale ERP implementations.
Current Status: The project team has completed testing for the Homeland Security Grant Program workflow (HSGP). The DEMA Homeland Security Grant Program is live in production for grant years 2020-2022. The team is planning to go live with the 2023 applications by the end of December 2023. The team has completed a review of the process flow requirements for the remaining grant programs to ensure the path forward includes any and all scope changes created from the results of the configuration and testing of the Homeland Security Grant Program. The DEMA Leadership team has approved Change Request #3 which will cover all changes to the remaining workflows.
Current Status: The project is currently in the execution phase as the USAHERDS test environment is live. Also, end user training has been completed and user acceptance testing has begun.
Current Status: Given the additional funding made accessible through several federal programs specifically targeting broadband efforts, Delaware has revised its original investment plan of ARPA dollars to maximize the potential of all available resources. Beginning in September 2022, an 18 month project using ARPA funding began. The ARPA project started with planned deployments to 4318 households/businesses and has grown to 6200 addresses. Vendor Statements of Work are complete and up-to-date with the three ARPA engaged carriers: Verizon, Mediacom and Comcast. Regular project meetings with each carrier are underway. The broadband internet sites are updated with the latest information regarding broadband deployment and mapping. Based on the initial SOWs, the project is nearly complete with approximately 99% of ARPA designated addresses now having access to a wired high speed broadband connection. 6200 addresses are now broadband served with only 85 remaining. Each carrier is preparing to complete the required end-of-project speed and latency testing. As a result of additional available ARPA Broadband funds, DTI is currently working with each carrier on ARPA SOW amendments to serve additional locations. These additional funds will bring broadband to another approximately 400 locations. The team expects work to begin by end-of-month January 2024.
Current Status: DTI has effectively analyzed the organization, infrastructure, services, vendor contracts and financials to develop target state objectives. The IT Centralization program is moving forward in a phased approach with focus on a Secure End User Service package and the resources required to support its enterprise-wide delivery. Cost model user consumption level information was provided to OMB in August to support target budget discussions that will determine agency funding for SEUS agency deployments for three of the six service towers. This process will be activated in fiscal year 2025 (July 2024) for Email and Collaboration, Security Suite, and Voice services.
Current Status: The new Client Portal is live with 75% of clients registered. The Client Portal allows clients to view online their account information, affiliated students, invoices, and renew their annual ambulance certifiicates. The new Student Portal is in testing which will allow Students to register for classes online. The client and student online payments module is currently under development.
Current Status: The project team continues to work with DNREC Waste and Hazardous Substances - Emergency Response Branch and a vendor to bring this project to its completion. Many of the requirements for this project required functionality that was either custom or newly introduced by the vendor. The team continues working through the system testing with the assistance of the vendor and plans to have the client start testing early in the first quarter of 2024.
Current Status: DNREC Division of Waste and Hazardous Substance Tank Compliance Section has contracted with a vendor to implement two tank inspection forms within an existing environmental database. The project team has completed several interations of data migration over to the environmental database. This data will be used to prefill the inspection forms for use in the field. The vendor continues to work on the workflow for the inpection forms and the DTI project team continues to work on the data workflow for data reveived from the field. User testing will take place later in the first quarter of 2024.
Current Status: Since the project began, business requirements were completed, a vendor has been selected, and project planning has been completed. The project is currently in the design phase. Delaware has reviewed preliminary design concepts from the vendor and are working to finalize the overall theme and design by end of the year.
Current Status: The project is currently in the planning phase and the project team is in the process of gathering requirements and documenting business processes.
Current Status: Inital reviews of the statement of work, provided by the vendor are underway. DTI will finalize the review and provide final versions back to the vendor post Deputy Attorney General reviews.
Current Status: Work has begun to set up and test the cloud based version of Webex and transiton the first three agencies to the new system.
Current Status: A base platform running Citrix has been built and tested. This new platform has been branded as Delaware Desktop-as-a-Service or DE-DaaS. The team wrapped up the migration of the Horizon VDI apps over to DE DaaS with the last two applications, Teammate and Intellinx. These applications were tested by each respective business area to ensure the quality of the delivery. Once testing was complete, the team collected documentation, performed two weeks of hyper-care and then closed out the phase. Separately, DTI is now formulating a plan for what Phase 2 will entail, i.e., migrate more apps and desktops, begin migrating agency users, etc. The scope for Phase 2 is being determined.
Current Status: This project is currently in the final stages of the Execution phase of the project lifecycle for Phase I. Sprints #1 - #5 have all been completed as well as associated Sprint Testing. The Showback Meeting/Demo Sessions have also been completed for each of the assigned Sprints. Post end-to-end demo remediation is actively taking place in preparation for User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Phase 1 of this project is due to be completed by the end of February 2024 since two additional Sprints were added on to the original schedule. Phase 1 is inclusive of the first three Process Workflows. Phase 2 workflow planning is also actively taking place while work on Phase I is coming to a close. The overall project is scheduled to be completed in April 2024.
Current Status: The DSHS Office of Highway Safety (OHS) team is working to enhance their instance of the DSHS Grant Management Suite to improve their budget management module, add additional fields that will support federal reporting requirements, and enhance their Schedule B reporting process. OHS will also be incorporating three new workflows into their application to include the Paid Media Campaign project management, the Car Seat Fitting Inspection work process, and the Seat Belt Survey collection process. Additional milestones were added to the project scope with the recently approved Change Request that was completed. The project is in the Execution phase. The project is due to be completed by end of February 2024.
Current Status: The Office of Management and Budget, Office of State Planning (OMB OSPC) business area received FY24 funding for the project solution. At this time, OMB is awaiting the finalization of the contract phase of the process being administered by GSS. The business area anticipates that once the appropriate contract and approvals are in place, the notice to proceed should commence by early-mid January 2024.
Current Status: Customer Care support continues for the Division of Air Quality's Minor/Small Source programs that were recently deployed. Completed Testing for the Division of Watershed and Stewardship's Shoreline and Waterways program and preparing for January deployment. Development continues for Division of Air Quality's REG 2 programs and the Division of Water Permits and Licensing Testing Module.
Current Status: DTI continues to make significant progress on the replacement of network equipment and has installed over 600 total switches to date; Phase 1 (155), Phase 2 (115), and phase 3 (337). Remaining switches will be completed the first week of 2024.
Current Status: DTI has successfully completed the initial migration of the agency to the state network, which includes data connectivity, voice platforms, collaborative services, and file share capabilities across all locations. DTI continues to support follow-on tasks winthin the project. 1. Prepare a new server environment for software deployment and migration of DSHA applications and databases. 2. Configuration of community rooms to the new state standards. 3. Upgrade of phones that are out of warranty. 4. The personnel onboarding process is being tested, and communications are being developed for distribution.
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