WaTech in the News

OLYMPIA - Washington OneNet congratulates the newly announced leadership team of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet): Chief Executive Officer, Michael Poth, and President, TJ Kennedy.

The First Responder Network Authority is charged with the design and development of FirstNet--a national broadband network dedicated to public safety. WaTech's Washington OneNet is the…

OLYMPIA - Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) Director and the state's Chief Information Officer, Michael Cockrill, announced yesterday WaTech's unification of the infrastructure area, formerly of the legacy Consolidated Technology Services (CTS), with enterprise applications, formerly a division of the Department of Enterprises Services (DES-ETS), under the leadership of Heidi Geathers…

OLYMPIA - The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) selected three Washington state technology initiatives as finalists for the State IT Recognition Awards.

The state of Washington awards finalists in the 2015 NASCIO program are:

Digital Government to Citizens (G2C) WA State Department of Revenue: Customer-Focused Service Enhancements to Online…

An important new policy and standard have been adopted and are now published and available for use. The policy is called the Commonly Used Software Product Retirement Policy and it is used in conjunction with the standard, called the Commonly Used Software Product Standard.

This policy is intended to promote agency awareness of and emphasis on commonly used software product…

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) was presented the 2014 award for Outstanding IT Achievement in the Digital Government to Business category by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) in Nashville on September 29th at the annual NASCIO awards…