Budget & Finance
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Amid an overall growth projection for the market of more than $160 billion, government IT leaders at the Beyond the Beltway conference confront a tough budget picture, with some seeing AI as part of the solution. -
Paper-based procurement has long been the way governments operate, and it does help ensure security and compliance. But it also brings a cost, which digital solutions and AI tools can improve.
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Since making the change in the spring of 2025, officials have consolidated licenses and are pushing Internet to all city sites. Both initiatives combined have saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Wisconsin regulators have awarded $5.3 million in federal pandemic relief money to fund expansion of high-speed Internet service in a dozen counties — provided those projects are completed this year.
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A newly imposed fee requires the Department of Transportation to collect funds from companies that build broadband lines in state right-of-ways or under highways. Lawmakers say it threatens rural expansion efforts.
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New Mexico lags behind peer states with regard to its broadband access, in part because of its large swaths of rural and tribal areas, according to a report by the Department of Information Technology earlier this year.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Wednesday announced the agency is investing $781,127 to provide telemedicine software and equipment to bolster health-care access in central Kansas.
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The Trump Administration is providing $4 million to aid in broadband expansion in rural Indiana.
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The Bay Springs Telephone Company Inc. will use a $4.6 million grant to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to connect 5,139 people, 69 businesses and 77 farms to high-speed broadband Internet in Mississippi.
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The $28,423.50 grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life must be used to improve election security. Officials say the money will help purchase scanning equipment and software for signature verifications.
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Project OVERCOME, led by US Ignite and funded by the National Science Foundation, will select five proof-of-concept projects to grow access to broadband connectivity in underserved or unserved areas.
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The Axon cameras automatically begin recording when an officer pulls their weapon — an increasingly popular model that law enforcement leaders in St. Petersburg and Clearwater have also embraced.
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A publicly financed fiber network spanning Multnomah County, Ore., would cost $1 billion, according to a new study, a price tag that could make it prohibitively expensive even if it’s technically possible.
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Continuing to invest in the online future of state and local government, the cloud software giant has integrated with a well-known payment processor to handle debit and credit card transactions.
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Millions of Americans are working remotely and experts predict that many will continue to do so after the pandemic ebbs. That could lead tax departments in more states to examine the feasibility of taxing remote workers.
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The state is set to receive $3.9 million as part of a multistate lawsuit filed against Anthem following a “massive” data breach in 2014, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced Wednesday.
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Twenty-five transit projects from around the country received some $14 million in innovation grant funding from the Federal Transit Administration, growing projects like digital fare integration and trip-planning.
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Within a month, Connecticut residents may be able to access smartphone alerts if they have had possible contact with COVID-19 patients, Gov. Ned Lamont announced as the state reported a spike in positive tests.
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The Department of Workforce Development is expected to seek funds in the next state budget to update Wisconsin’s decades-old unemployment system, which officials say has hamstrung claims during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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North Olmsted councilmembers are debating the approval of a nearly $50,000 expenditure to upgrade 275 computers. The operating system of the existing city computers — Windows 7 — is no longer supported.
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Roughly $75,000 from the city’s $2.2 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act money will be used to extend Internet access for 800 low-income families throughout the city.
