Independent Project Oversight Report (IPOR) Rating

Green
- Satisfactory, no corrective action necessary.
Yellow
- Caution, risks/issues exist. There may be a need for corrective action in the near future.
Red
- Escalated for immediate corrective action. There is a significant risk to the health of the project.
Blue
- Not enough data is available to make a determination about the project health.
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2740-229 State to State Verification (S2S)

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) proposes to implement the State-to-State Verification Service (S2S) program. This program would enable DMV to limit a driver’s license or identification (DL/ID) card applicant to possessing only one REAL ID compliant or federal non-compliant (FNC) DL/ID card nationwide. The program would also enable DMV to share information with other participating states on all State issued DL/ID cards and to send requests to other States to terminate a DL/ID card. These processes would be performed electronically through the S2S program.

Project Details

Agency / State Entity	Transportation / Motor Vehicles, Department of
Total Cost	$55,999,282
Last Approved Start Date	10/21/2025
Last Approved Finish Date	02/16/2027
Criticality Rating	Medium

IPOR Reporting Period	Overall IPOR Rating
07/01/2026 - 07/31/2026	Green

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Key Questions

Is the project on track to satisfy the customer's business objectives?Yes

Is the project on track to achieve the objectives in the approved timeframe?Yes

Is the project on track to achieve the objectives within the approved budget?Yes

Project Overall Health	Comments
Green	The S2S Project remains Green and continued to make progress toward certification and Go-Live during July. Association of American Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) Informal Testing was completed ahead of schedule, End-to-End (E2E) testing continued, and the project progressed through Sprint 15 while preparing for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and upcoming AAMVA testing activities. Time Management and Quality Management remain Yellow. Time Management remains Yellow because multiple development, testing, defect resolution, data, and release activities continue in parallel, while AAMVA-dependent activities were moved into August, and the schedule variance remained at 5.6%. Quality remains Yellow due to the continued volume of testing and defect remediation, remaining requirements traceability items, and the upcoming transition to UAT and AAMVA Readiness Testing. The remaining focus areas remain Green. Overall health remains Green because the project continues to progress against its certification objectives, testing results to date have been generally positive, and project governance and risk management processes remain in place. Continued monitoring of testing, external dependencies, defects, and schedule flexibility is important as the project enters a more intensive testing period.

Project Overall Health

Comments

Green

The S2S Project remains Green and continued to make progress toward certification and Go-Live during July. Association of American Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) Informal Testing was completed ahead of schedule, End-to-End (E2E) testing continued, and the project progressed through Sprint 15 while preparing for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and upcoming AAMVA testing activities. Time Management and Quality Management remain Yellow. Time Management remains Yellow because multiple development, testing, defect resolution, data, and release activities continue in parallel, while AAMVA-dependent activities were moved into August, and the schedule variance remained at 5.6%. Quality remains Yellow due to the continued volume of testing and defect remediation, remaining requirements traceability items, and the upcoming transition to UAT and AAMVA Readiness Testing. The remaining focus areas remain Green. Overall health remains Green because the project continues to progress against its certification objectives, testing results to date have been generally positive, and project governance and risk management processes remain in place. Continued monitoring of testing, external dependencies, defects, and schedule flexibility is important as the project enters a more intensive testing period.

Focus Area/Rating	Comments
Governance Green	Governance remains Green. The project continues regular governance, status reporting, risk and issue reviews, defect triage, and coordination across DMV, the System Integrator (SI), AAMVA, and other dependent workstreams. Release and deployment coordination also continued during July.
Time Management Yellow	Time Management remains Yellow. The project addressed the previously identified missing predecessor and successor relationships and submitted an updated schedule on July 23, with no further CDT comments. However, E2E testing, UAT preparation, AAMVA testing, defect resolution, DL Pilot integration, de-duplication, batch-load activities, and release planning continue in parallel. AAMVA Performance Testing and the bulk-load dry run were also moved to August, requiring continued monitoring of schedule flexibility. The current schedule continues to reflect a project completion date of March 16, 2027, beyond the approved February 17, 2027, completion date, representing a variance of 5.6%.
Cost & Contract Management Green	Cost & Contract Management remains Green. No significant cost or contract management concerns were identified during the reporting period.
Scope Management Green	Scope Management remains Green. The project continued progressing certification-related development while separately tracking post-certification work. Sprint 15 remained focused on pre-certification work, while post-certification activities continued in parallel to support the eventual Go-Live solution.
Resources Green	Resource Management remains Green. Resources continue supporting development, testing, defect resolution, AAMVA coordination, release planning, data readiness, and UAT preparation. AAMVA-related resource and bandwidth dependencies remain a watch item.
Quality Yellow	Quality remains Yellow. AAMVA Informal Testing was completed successfully and ahead of schedule, while Performance Testing produced positive results for Search Inquiry (CD01) and Verification Inquiry (CD02) transactions. However, E2E testing and defect remediation remain active, and requirements traceability continues to have outstanding items. The project is also approaching UAT and AAMVA Readiness Testing, increasing the importance of testing coverage, defect resolution, and retesting.
Risk And Issues Green	Risks & Issues remains Green. The project continues to identify, track, and manage risks through established processes. AAMVA readiness, shared resources, test data, and external dependencies remain potential risks as the project approaches the next testing phases.
Transition Readiness Green	Transition Readiness remains Green. Release planning, deployment sequencing, runbook development, rollback planning, Organizational Change Management (OCM), training, and division readiness activities continued during July. The project is also continuing data and batch-load preparation needed for Go-Live.
Conditions For Approval Green	Conditions for Approval improved to Green for July. The previously outstanding schedule condition was addressed during the reporting period. The project resolved the predecessor and successor relationship issues identified by CDT and submitted the updated schedule on July 23. CDT has no further comments on the updated schedule. The Updated Project Management Plans submission condition remains partially met. The Transition to Maintenance and Operations Plan is not yet due.
Corrective Action Green	N/A.

Project Approval Documents