STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3130

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 107

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 107 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES AND CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER TO WORK WITH THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO ESTABLISH A PUBLIC SAFETY TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS AND CYBER SECURITY COMMAND CENTER,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Accounting and General Services and Chief Information Officer to work with the High Technology Development Corporation to establish a public safety technology campus and cyber security command center.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Department of Accounting and General Services, Office of Information Management and Technology, City and County of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services, and one individual.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the High Technology Development Corporation.

     Your Committees find that the State currently has low quality data centers that are not fulfilling the capacity, reliability, and security needs of various departments.  There are over thirty data centers that are poorly secured and unmanned more than sixty-five percent of the time, exposing the State to the possibility of significant physical and cyber security breaches.  Furthermore, some of these data center facilities are aging and located in inundation zones.  However, the Office of Information Management and Technology has the ability to oversee the design, construction, and operation of a new secure data center that can house the State's centralized computing resources and key staff in a location away from flood and tsunami hazard zones.  There are one hundred fifty acres of land for sale in central Oahu that allow for greater power reliability through the availability of electrical feeds.  The establishment of a public safety technology campus and cyber security command center in central Oahu will improve the reliability, availability, and capabilities of the State's data processing and communications infrastructure.  

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 107 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts,

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair