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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The pandemic and its sweeping effects took governments by surprise. But when the next crisis hits, there will be no excuse to be unprepared. Here’s the groundwork information technology leaders should put in place now.
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State election officials voted to put more than $5 million in grant money toward securing local election efforts. The grants seek to boost cybersecurity technology and training, as well as costs associated with the coronavirus.
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Residents of the city are petitioning to expedite the program to equip police officers with body cameras in 2021. As it stands, the department plans to buy the devices between 2022 and 2023.
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The Orlando Sentinel newspaper editorial board calls for a law that would include real consequences for officers who don’t activate their cameras, or who deliberately turn them off to avoid scrutiny.
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The Massachusetts startup has devised an online tool for local governments to draft, publish and automatically update their budgets in a way they hope is more user-friendly and accessible to citizens than the status quo.
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Despite what appears to be nearly universal agreement about their value, some departments have said that financial and technical constraints are delaying the institution of body camera programs.
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While most sectors saw month-over-month growth in employment, the government continued losing workers in the latest jobs report — a trend not unexpected given agencies' reliance on tax and fee revenue.
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The city of Racine will receive $3,183,723 from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Authority to buy electric buses and charging stations. Racine is the only city in Wisconsin to receive an allocation.
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The federal money from the CARES Act will help the city of Rochester to pay for a pair of 60-foot, battery-electric buses, an electric vehicle charging station and other transit-related necessities.
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Money from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act will be allocated to Duncan Regional Hospital for new telehealth conferencing equipment. Some $84.96 million has been distributed across 41 states so far.
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Pittsburgh’s startup economy stuttered with investors turning to protect existing investments amid COVID-19, a highly infectious respiratory disease that shut down commerce, university campuses and more.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded nearly $3 million to the North Central Regional Transit District for the purchase of electric buses. The vehicles will replace three diesel- and two gasoline-powered buses.
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The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) is set to receive millions of dollars in new annual funding, following the successful passage of a countywide sales tax dedicated to transit and transportation.
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The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, the city workers’ pension fund, reported a data breach affecting around 74,000 members, and the data may have included some sensitive information.
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The New London, Conn., Police Department is planning to have every officer wearing body cameras by fall following a unanimous city council vote that authorized a $1.2 million contract to buy the cams and related tech.
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As retail businesses prepare for reopenings, business owners will be looking for ways to reduce the number of hand-to-hand transactions taking place in their stores. One step may be enacting no-cash policies.
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While Ohio’s stay-at-home order closed non-essential businesses and kept most people indoors, the opioid epidemic did not abate. Stats show drug overdose deaths have remained fairly steady over the past three months.
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The novel coronavirus shifted the nature of gov tech work virtually overnight, but its long-term impacts will bring even more changes as priorities change and tech offers opportunities to shape the future.
