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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Staffers have asked the city council to approve $4.4 million in upgrades to data center hardware and software, cybersecurity tools and network hardware. But leaders have asked to hear from vendors before they decide.
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The telecommunications company Spectrum is seeking CARES Act funding to connect four underserved streets in Keene to high-speed Internet, applying for money through New Hampshire’s Emergency Broadband Expansion Program.
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Preferring not to wait for sweeping federal action to transition the U.S. to renewable energy, an Obama adviser and Yale scientist have created an investment platform, Raise Green, to fund local projects.
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The chief of the Worcester Police Department has raised concerns about implementing a body camera program. According to a department report, the program would cost up to $11 million over the next five years.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars in tech spending was approved by the House Appropriations Committee. Twelve bills focus on boosting homeland security, election security, rural broadband and other issues.
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Marin County, Calif., officials are eyeing a $1.6 million proposal to have a Bay Area health technology company take over the county’s drive-through coronavirus testing site at the Civic Center.
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Scranton, Pa., expects $515,800 in additional pandemic-response expenses this year, including the anticipated $250,000 cost of transitioning to a hybrid cloud network that would support additional remote workers.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded grants to telehealth networks in the service of expanding the service in South Carolina communities.
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Citing a mix of cybersecurity concerns and the likelihood that online education will be used again this year due to COVID-19, IT officials with Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools asked for the computers.
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High-speed Internet can certainly help students and faculty at HBCUs and TCUs, but experts during a recent webinar discussed how cyberinfrastructure is a multi-faceted challenge for 21st-century educational institutions.
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Smart city project deployments are anticipated to pull back 25 percent from earlier estimates as COVID-19's stretches the limits of city budgets. Choosing the right projects will be essential for the best return, experts say.
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Latah County, Idaho, commissioners approved the submission of a $1.6 million federal grant application that, if approved, would improve public Internet access for Moscow, Potlatch, Genesee, Troy and Deary residents.
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Amid calls to reduce police funding, a recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that in 2017, police spending per capita recovered to its pre-recession peak after years of steady increases.
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The Task Force on Broadband Access will advise state leadership on the actions and policies needed to promote high-speed Internet access. The group includes representatives from the private and public sectors.
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Jacksonville, Illinois city leaders are looking to establish a citywide fiber-optic network to expand Internet access.
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The software company VeriToll proposes to help transportation departments find faulty equipment by automatically crowdsourcing data from the smartphones of drivers who use toll roads every day.
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Waterford, Conn., has agreed to allocate about $110,000 to buy body cameras, servers and video redaction software, agreeing to waive the bidding process and award the contract to a Texas-based company in the space.
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When researchers at Code for America went looking for ways to help low-income workers stabilize their lives and begin climbing career ladders, they found the biggest need, unsurprisingly, was cash.
