Budget & Finance
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The company collects intelligence from disparate public agencies that could help suppliers craft better proposals and pitches. The funding reflects the growing role of AI in government procurement. -
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.
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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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More high-speed Internet service is coming to much-needed areas of rural North Carolina after two state grants totaling $415,000 were recently awarded to Eastern Carolina Broadband of Pink Hill.
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DOT was supplying the state with billions of dollars in grants, showering the project with political affection and later making repeated amendments to its funding deals to help the state weather construction delays.
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The state annually ranks counties by greatest need. This year, it is giving out $10 million to 19 rural counties to help them boost their efforts to bring high-speed Internet to their residents.
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Replacing the Medicaid system is required by the federal government, analysts said, but the state has repeatedly missed targets for awarding contracts and encountered staffing problems since the work began in 2014.
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Under a collaboration scheme, Dallas County, Texas, has effectively lost all control over a court-case tracking software project that has already cost taxpayers $30 million with nothing to show for it, commissioners say.
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Gov. Jim Justice announced that the state has secured federal grant funding that will be used to improve broadband and high-speed Internet connectivity in Mason, Pocahontas and Wayne counties.
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State CIOs discussed not only the risk-taking and strategy involved in making major enterprise-wide changes, but also the people skills and communication tools necessary to create transformation.
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The New York City-adjacent county now has a number of initiatives and other new systems in place aimed at bolstering transparency and accountability following years of questions related to integrity.
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It's the first week at work for the state's new CIO, and the governor wants him to freeze work on the troubled vehicle licensing and registration system in order to buy a software package as a replacement.
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The House Jobs Omnibus bill includes $70 million for the Border-to-Border Broadband Grant Program, while the Senate’s version came in $40 million short of that figure.
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The new machines will print out a paper ballot that will be reviewed by the voter and placed in a scanner that will scan in the vote into that polling places' tabulation.
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On Monday, the governor signed an executive order on requiring all state agencies to be online with the common InnovateOhio platform within one year.
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Candidates for city council and mayoral races have to collect a series of small donations in person to qualify. Now, they still need to amass the donations, but a so-called “Clean Campaign Portal” is helping out.
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A $25,000 grant from the Blandin Foundation was accepted Tuesday, clearing the way for a feasibility study to identify where broadband access is lacking and recommend potential solutions.
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As Boulder plans a citywide high-speed Internet backbone, the City Council will vote on whether to spend $2.5 million more to build several additional connections that would extend the broadband to specific locations.
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Amid the warnings of Russian interference, Minnesota lawmakers remain at odds over using more than $6 million in federal funds approved by Congress more than a year ago to shore up election security.
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A growing number of governments are adopting a Silicon Valley, user-centered design methodology for creating better software programs, known as Minimum Viable Product. The results include huge time savings.
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Over half of respondents to a recent survey felt residents, government and private industry of the state need to act quickly to implement high-speed Internet infrastructure in rural areas.
