Information Technology (IT) Transformation Sample Clauses

Information Technology (IT) Transformation. The Department’s current IT systems and capabilities are woefully outdated and “siloed.” These challenges seriously hamper ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’s ability to fulfill its critical mission of protecting public health and the Commonwealth’s natural resources. In 2012, the Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs and MassDEP launched a major initiative to transform the outdated information technology (IT) systems across all environmental and energy agencies. This initiative is called the Energy & Environmental Information and Public Access System” or EIPAS. The goals of EIPAS include having paperless, on-line permitting fully in place in three years, making it easy for citizens and business to get vital environmental information online 24/7 about the environmental conditions in their neighborhoods, and greatly enhancing our enforcement capabilities by taking advantage of new technologies, such as remote sensors. The IT transformation at MassDEP will serve as a pilot for expanding these systems and services to our sister agencies within the EEA Secretariat. MassDEP and EEA have been laying the groundwork needed to secure the substantial multi-year capital funding needed to for the design and implementation of this massive overhaul. The target is to obtain the funds late in the calendar year of 2013 in order to begin system design work in calendar 2014.