CDT Awards $36M Contract for New LifeLine Program Management

Plus, Anti-Bias Toolkit Offers Government a Closer Look at Automated Decision-Making and more...

by Ben Miller / September 25, 2018

TOP NEWS

CDT Awards $36M Contract for LifeLine Program Management The $36-million, 30-month contract with Maximus will help the California Department of Technology provide discounted home and cell phones to eligible households.

Anti-Bias Toolkit Offers Government a Closer Look at Automated Decision-Making The offering is a collaborative effort between GovEx, San Francisco, the Civic Analytics Network and Data Community DC.

Industry Giants, City Leaders Gather to Take on Seattle’s Biggest Issues Seattle City Hall housed representatives from tech giants like Microsoft and Twitter this week to discuss homelessness and transportation woes in the city.

MARKET SPOTLIGHT

Best of New York 2018: Winning Projects Focus on Cooperation, Breaking Down Silos New York’s state and municipal governments face daily challenges often on a scale unlike those found elsewhere in the country, and this year’s award winners excelled at finding new and more efficient ways to tackle them.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Microsoft Rolls Out Additions to Office, Security and Cloud Offerings (Bloomberg)

VCs Say Silicon Valley Is Not the Gold Mine It Used to Be (TechCrunch)

Voice Technology Is Useful, in Demand, and Not Moving Fast Enough (Digital Trends)

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Ben Miller Associate Editor of GT Data and Business

Ben Miller is the associate editor of data and business for Government Technology. His reporting experience includes breaking news, business, community features and technical subjects. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, and lives in Sacramento, Calif.