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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With a dizzying array of actions that could and should be taken, states face a quandary of where to spend the limited dollars that help governments wage the fight against cyberattacks.
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Efforts to fill gaps in access to high-speed Internet service in the region will require significant funding. Officials are in the process of gathering public input to determine the best area to target this work.
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Alarm bells should ring over a global currency that is run by an exclusive club that serves its investor-owners, not the public good.
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Plus, Pearland, Texas, launches a new hyperlocal mapping tool; Baltimore issues water bills for the first time since ransomware attack; California courts system looks to hire technologists; and more.
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In an effort to make the eight zones more attractive for investment, the city council approved a professional services contract to bring wireless Internet service to those areas as soon as Dec. 31.
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Legacy network bottlenecks during the testing phase of the data and application migration to a Unisys-owned hybrid cloud center, in Eagan, Minn., have pushed back state plans to go live until early November.
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A $700,000 grant from the Texas Education Agency will see a South Texas College Regional Center for Public Safety Excellence classroom converted into a lab to better prepare students for cybersecurity careers.
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Officials are discussing a special pricing agreement to make electricity more affordable for the data center. Under the terms, the facility would pay roughly the same rate as the city — less than 5 cents per kilowatt.
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State government in West Virginia is responsible for reviewing many aspects of local government finance. Now the state is using OpenGov to improve the way those governments report their data.
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According to a report from the International City Management Association, one in three local governments are oblivious about how often their information systems are attacked by would-be cybercriminals.
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During an all-day digital inclusion summit hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, speakers highlighted the sharp divide between those in the region with high-speed Internet access and those going without.
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Red lights at major intersections will be controlled by one system, instead of the several individual closed systems that are in place now. Officials say the existing system is more than 20 years old.
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The working group will investigate the rapidly developing area of distributed ledger technology thought to have considerable potential for both the public and private sectors.
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced the Arkansas Rural Connect program to help communities with at least 500 residents receive funding for broadband infrastructure to provide residents with high-speed Internet access.
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After success expanding broadband access to rural areas of the state with a $10 million grant program, the Broadband Infrastructure Office wants to broaden its efforts but must wait for a budget to be approved first.
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The ransomware hit May 7, bringing the city’s computers to a standstill. Hackers locked files and demanded payment, which the mayor refused to provide. Since the attack, IT teams have been laboring to restore services.
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The June 2016 breach of the state’s voter database remains the warning sign for election system vulnerability, with national security experts now saying all 50 states had been targeted for Russian intrusion.
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The Texas city will explore how the technology can help secure identity documents to help homeless individuals access to social and health services vital to ending and preventing homelessness.
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