Government Experience

The incoming Texas technology leader will guide IT services across more than 40 departments and 500 city facilities. He was most recently CIO at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

The governor’s office in New Jersey announced the release of the NJ TRANSIT Rapid Action Plan, a blueprint for improvements in technology, safety, accessibility and cleanliness.

California is supplementing its traditional process of navigating public comments with AI, to do a better job of gathering actionable insight. Its model may inform similar engagement efforts by other governments.

A single online credential to verify identity could improve security, protect privacy and slash the billions lost to identity fraud. Arizona CIO J.R. Sloan is prioritizing this work as NASCIO president.

Nevada’s inaugural deputy director of the Office of Information Security and Cyber Defense, created last year, will join the county as its new director of government affairs for the sheriff's office.

Gov. Matt Meyer announced the release of a Permitting Accelerator to help shorten the time and reduce the cost of deploying projects in energy, transportation, housing and elsewhere.

A former technology executive for the Internal Revenue Service, Shukla worked on modernization and AI efforts at the federal agency. He replaces Mark Combs, who has announced his retirement.

The state’s new chief transformation officer served as a senior White House official and has since held leadership roles with Connecticut government and Yale University’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy.

Code for America’s 2026 Government AI Landscape Assessment evaluates states’ AI readiness, highlighting progress made within the past year, across four stages: readiness, piloting, implementation and impact.

The new WanderNebraska mobile app, a collaboration between the historical society foundation and the state Game and Parks’ Trail Trek program, is intended to transform how people discover the state.

Nearly a month after California Department of Technology Director Liana Bailey-Crimmins retired, Gov. Gavin Newsom has found her replacement, at the Government Operations Agency.

It’s unclear what the state executive’s next move will be. He is among several C-level technologists who have stepped down recently, including Senior Counselor to the Governor Amy Tong.

Procurement rules and a lack of enthusiasm for cybersecurity training are two significant obstacles they face, technology leaders in city and county government said at the CoMotion Miami conference this week.

City leaders from Boston to San Antonio to Tokyo intend to shape how AI is built and governed. The group has the support of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University.

Andy Ritter took the reins as Pennsylvania’s new CISO earlier this year after nearly a decade supporting cybersecurity and risk management. As CISO, he is focused on constituent outcomes.

Washington CIO Bill Kehoe details the way artificial intelligence can unlock many facets of modernization, enabling faster decommissioning of legacy systems and expedited business process re-engineering.

CIO David Edinger describes a major restructuring of IT in Colorado aimed at flattening the organization and getting closer to the agencies it serves.

Aaron Wright, a state technologist with more than 25 years of experience, will fill the newly created position. It will, he said, introduce “a dedicated point of focus” for AI endeavors.