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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Lt. Gov. Dan Forest has formed the North Carolina Blockchain Initiative made up of members from academia and the private sector who will present their findings to his office before the next legislative session.
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It will take at least two years for a contractor to build a custom case management system for the Paternity and Child Support Division. The existing system is experiencing technical issues and is currently down.
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The Overland Park Public Safety Committee voted this week to approve $430,000 toward the purchase of body cameras. The department opted to work with the vendor that supplies its in-car cameras.
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Mary Lou Carolan, assistant director of the Newburgh Free Library, noted that the kiosks could help Newburghers participate in the 2020 Census, given that 40 to 60 percent of area residents lack Internet access at home.
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Funding for individual counties ranges from $229 in Hendry County to $524,838 for Orange County. In South Florida, Miami-Dade County was awarded $210,977, Broward got $18,500, and Palm Beach County got nothing.
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Citing an impending lapse in Microsoft operating system support, Information Technology Department officials told council members earlier this year that 400 new computers would be needed countywide.
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Oregon Liquor Control Commission IT staff manually intervene every day to keep the state's third-largest revenue generating agency functioning as optimally as possible while mitigating system failures at least twice a month.
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Assuming representatives from Facebook testify at Senate and House hearings next week, the consensus among industry observers is that the most serious inquiries from lawmakers will deal with the privacy of users.
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People banned from two public buildings in the Idaho city could soon find it more difficult to slip by staff. Officials say the move will boost security, though official regulations are not yet in place.
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In prior years’ capital improvement plans for the city, there was roughly $80,000 envisioned in start-up costs for a body camera program, but that figure has now proved itself to be too low.
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According to Police Chief Scott Schubert, the cities nearly 900 officers will be outfitted with body-worn cameras in 2019. The move comes as an influx of small-town police departments statewide ponder similar programs.
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Last week, the Lake City City Council voted to pay a hacker’s ransom. The bill would be about $470,000, but with cyberinsurance the city would put up only the $10,000 deductible. City leaders didn’t hesitate.
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Originally designed to expand Internet service in rural parts of the state, the final bill would have charged subscribers about $4 a year, with most of the money going to help subsidize rural phone service.
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With support from some of the biggest philanthropies in the local government space, several cities across the country are bolstering their data-driven decision-making in the service of new economic mobility work.
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Trump believes the money Americans spend on Chinese imports like the iPhone goes straight into China's pockets. In reality, China gets very little value from it.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitched the idea following a trip to Israel, where a drone research partnership was formed. It’s unclear how the center’s mission would differ from an existing state-funded initiative in Syracuse.
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Industry experts cite expensive hardware as the foremost hurdle for the company to overcome when it comes to delivering reliable, high-speed Internet service through a constellation of satellites.
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The Facebook-backed cryptocurrency has economists and lawmakers questioning whether the social media company will become too powerful. Financial experts are split on the societal value of the undertaking.
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