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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County officials are expected to select Dominion’s direct-recording electronic (DRE) system because it is familiar to voters. Board members said the choice would limit the potential for human error.
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Cities deemed financially distressed by the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development have access to grant funds intended to promote “fiscal stability.” Hazleton will use the money to upgrade its computers and software.
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The Department of Finance has delayed the embattled agency’s request for the money as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s DMV Strike Team prepares for a top-to-bottom overhaul.
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Microsoft is ending its technical support of the 10-year-old Windows 7, which is forcing Crawford County, Pa., government leaders to approve an operating system upgrade for 56 computers and a replacement of 145.
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Election officials in the county say the new machines, which could be ready before the primaries, will incorporate digital and paper-based verification methods.
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The county is taking cues from state government's electric car program, which already has several hundred hybrid vehicles in use.
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Traverse City, Mich.’s plan to build its own fiber-optic broadband network is prompting criticism from Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, who says municipal undertakings are “really stupid ideas.”
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State and local government leaders say that for now some collaborative efforts are facing the potential of individual delays, but the effects are likely not to be noticed by most of the general public.
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If approved by voters in Randolph County and Moberly, the tax would essentially add a $1 monthly fee for each cellphone used in the county. A three percent sales tax will also be added on the purchase of prepaid cellphones.
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Gov. Jay Inslee announced the creation of an office to expand Internet service into “every nook and cranny” of the state Wednesday. The initiative comes with an initial investment of $25 million.
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The money from Michigan's Mobility Challenge grant project, started under the last governor, will go toward projects involving rural rideshare, paratransit, veteran transportation and self-driving vehicles.
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Problems with the existing system are preventing county employees and other users from accessing email and seeing shared calendars. The issues are also kicking users off of the email system.
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A $300,000 allocation from the city to trade group SFMade will go toward training disadvantaged residents for manufacturing jobs that use 3-D printing and robotics.
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When it comes to investment markets, history does repeat itself again and again and again.
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The honeymoon seems to be over for many looking to make a fortune mining cryptocurrency, but that isn’t stopping Douglas County officials from pushing for a blockchain innovation campus.
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Having been described as having the efficiency of "two cans on a string" and durability of "masking tape and baling wire," Story County leaders are in agreement that the outdated communications system needs to go.
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The city has fluctuated on when and how to introduce the technology to officers, even setting aside the funds to make it happen. Now, officials seem to have renewed energy for the effort.
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The local investment will give 3,800 residents access to high-speed Internet in an area that has struggled to escape the days of dial-up service.
