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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Some cybercrime experts believe the recent cyberattack on New Orleans local government is the result of Ryuk, which is a type of ransomware used to hamstring computer data until a bitcoin price is paid.
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The state, like many around it, is moving ahead with an initiative to revamp a 30-year-old legacy system with an off-the-shelf solution. The phased project is set for completion in fall 2021.
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Police in the city could soon have access to real-time intelligence from ShotSpotter audio sensors. Without the technology, officers have to rely on whatever information they receive during dispatch calls about gunfire.
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The city plans to apply for a $114,229 grant from the Public Service Commission’s Broadband Expansion Grant Program. The grant would cover half the cost to expand fiber-optic infrastructure.
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The scholarship money will be available to 35 colleges, with the goal of strengthening the state’s workforce in technology related fields such as computer science fields like coding and cyber security.
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The emergency management agencies of Calhoun, Etowah, DeKalb, Marshall, Cleburne and Morgan counties joined together recently to subscribe to Everbridge mass notification software at a reduced cost.
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The county announced the launch of a broadband campaign consisting of a brief online survey and speed test for residential and commercial addresses. The survey will serve as a means to map access levels.
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The school district has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant for a distance learning strategy, enabling virtual reality field trips and Internet collaboration with other school districts over great distances.
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The Columbus Public Safety Department, whose staff makes up roughly 75 percent of the city's full-time payroll, is seeking to increase its budget by 3.42 percent next year to $647.4 million, with some of that going to tech.
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Wisconsin has received the second-highest marks in the nation for economic development-related transparency and online access to information, according to a new report from a pair of advocacy organizations.
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Stakeholders both inside and outside of the federal agency attended a recent demo day at the bureau's headquarters, discussing the roll that data maps, human-centric design and more will play in next year’s count.
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States have made progress with budget portals that allow citizens to see how tax dollars are spent, but a new report shows they remain lacking in online transparency about economic development subsidies.
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High-speed Internet could come to all area addresses without a tax increase if a two-thirds majority of voters sign off. Residents attended a recent town hall meeting to learn more about the project.
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Creation of a new Minnesota computer system for vehicle registrations and titles is on track to replace the much-maligned current one, according to a report, but some risks related to schedule and budget still remain.
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The city’s police and fire departments have finished a multi-year project to update the public safety dispatch system. The initial cost of the overhaul was $3 million, with $2.8 million due each year for the next decade.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its first round of rural broadband funding awards as part of its ReConnect Pilot Program. Alabama got a huge slice of that pie to fund four major efforts.
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East Baton Rouge Parish schools are considering improving backup systems to protect its data from the kind of ransomware attacks that recently hit other school systems and shut down parts of the state government.
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Lakeland, Fla., has entered into agreements with two private Internet service providers that may be willing to strike a private-public partnership to offer gig-speed Internet at Monday's city commission meeting.
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