Budget & Finance
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The millions in cost savings resulted from modernization of legacy technologies and smart financial management, state officials said. New funding in the 2025-2026 budget will strengthen IT and cybersecurity. -
State governments are expected to deploy AI in 2026 with an increased focus on returns on investment as they face complex policymaking restrictions enacted by a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
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The chair of the City Council introduced a measure last month that would mandate using online software to enable better visibility into city and county budgets and finances. The bill passed its first of three Council readings.
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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.
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The company’s latest efforts will also expand its network of Atlanta nonprofits in its “Grow with Google” program that works to train small businesses. More than 40 metro Atlanta nonprofits are a part of the program.
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A newly enacted state law threatens to take revenue out of city coffers by cutting the fees paid by telecommunications companies using city-owned land for their infrastructure. The move has been called corporate welfare.
