Budget & Finance
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Lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a spending plan that, by emergency proclamation, enables access to the budget stabilization account. The state’s approved technology spend is reduced from the previous fiscal year.
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An expansion to its IT operating budget is enabling investment in AI tools to create efficiencies and solve challenges. The city’s technology agency plans to hire a chief AI officer and support staff this year.
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Euna Solutions has launched new tools that focus on such areas as procurement, finances and card payments. Each of the tools offers a glimpse into the state of the market and what the near-term future might bring.
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A recent Connecticut Superior Court decision has given cities and towns in that state the right to use existing utility infrastructure within to create municipal networks to deliver cheap, fast Internet.
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A municipal Internet service run by the city could increase bandwidth tenfold and drop prices to consumers by about 30 percent, according to the CEO of a company seeking to bring the service to Quincy, Mass.
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The Knight Foundation is looking for projects that will take the unprecedented amount of data now available and translate it in a way that will strengthen community engagement and engage community challenges.
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U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced a $20 million award for Lake Nona to develop a driverless bus system, one of many Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development grants nationwide.
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The state’s Cyber Operations Center is seeing the benefits of a $15.4 million funding boost. The investment will allow for the hiring of new staff and the deployment of new cybersecurity tools, officials say.
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The county has received a $20 million federal grant to expand its autonomous shuttle system at Lake Nona as part of a combined $62 million in transportation awards to three Florida cities.
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The disclosure of criticism for the previous administration came during testimony from the county’s acting director of information technology, Charles Henderson, in a budget hearing last week with the County Council.
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A newly completed drone testing corridor between Syracuse International Airport and Griffiss International Airport in Rome, N.Y., is seeing additional state investment in a facility that will allow for indoor testing.
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A newly completed drone testing corridor between Syracuse International Airport and Griffiss International Airport in Rome, N.Y., is seeing additional state investment in a facility that will allow for indoor testing.
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A common issue with rural broadband expansion is small towns not having enough leverage to establish better Internet service. But legislation could turn the tables, giving communities the authority to form a unified district.
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A divided Dallas County Commissioners Court is once again tangling over its future with TechShare, a multi-county technology project that has already cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars with little return.
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The Southern California university is helping an assortment of government groups tap into a relatively new data platform that provides innovative opportunities for research, policy and storytelling.
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Under a five-year contract with Periscope Holdings, the OregonBuys Marketplace will standardize purchasing across all the state’s agencies, from procurement to payment, giving Oregon a better view into buying activity.
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The Austin, Texas-based company has announced several new large government clients this year, offering cloud software to oversee infrastructure spending from planning to completion and maintenance.
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Louisiana-based data center company Whinstone US Inc. is building what is being heralded as the largest digital mining operation in the world. Construction has already started on the 100-acre facility.
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The $10.8 million advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project is expected to break even in just under a decade. According to officials, roughly 80 percent of electric and water customers already have smart meters.
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County officials are looking at proposals to preserve physical copies of records like marriage licenses while making them available online. Some 80 counties in the state already offer these services.
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The city has penned an agreement with the budgeting-and-performance cloud operator that will charge $18,000 annually with a $4,000 startup fee. OpenGov has been on the city’s radar for some time.