The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has signed an ITO contract with EDS. The contract, valued at US $245, is a 4.5 year engagement to transform the agency’s ‘digital environment’.

Under the agreement, EDS will work to automate manual business processes in order to improve productivity, accuracy and ultimately, enhance staff, public and offender safety.

The services provided will include system integration and applications modernisation to help increase availability of accurate and complete information. Additionally, EDS will create and manage the image capture, database, information storage and server environment where offender information will reside.

“This initiative will revolutionise the process for sharing and using offender data and will significantly improve our offender management process,” said Scott Kernan, undersecretary of operations for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “We are confident that EDS is a partner with experience in corrections and large-scale technology projects that will help