Before then, however, Industry Insider — Florida has combed through the Legislature’s 524-page budget to identify potential tech funding for state agencies, finding the following:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS
- $59,710,261 has been earmarked for information technology
- $17,000,000 in nonrecurring funds from the state’s general revenue fund has been set aside for the Department of Corrections to procure a deliverables-based, cloud-hosted solution to modernize its Offender Based Information System (OBIS)
- $10,931,342 has been set aside for the Department of Juvenile Justice Bureau of Information Technology to possibly conduct a modernization study of the Juvenile Justice Information System
- $3,000,000 in recurring funds from the general revenue fund will be used to continue the victim notification system (VINE), of which $2,000,000 will fund a contract amendment for VINE to expand notification capabilities
- $2,000,000 in re-occurring funds from the general revenue fund has been set aside to competitively procure search and analytics technology to enhance the department’s public safety program
AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
- $26,868,901 has been set aside for the Office of Agriculture Technology Services
- $10,000,000 has been set aside for the Department of Environmental Protection to competitively procure water quality treatment technologies to combat harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee
- $10,000,000 has been earmarked for the Department of Environmental Protection to support the evaluation and implementation of innovative technologies and short-term solutions to combat or clean up harmful algal blooms and nutrient enrichment of Florida’s freshwater bodies, including lakes, rivers, estuaries and canals
- $5,000,000 has been earmarked for mote marine aquaculture technology
- $3,000,000 has been set aside for a Florida red tide mitigation and technology development initiative
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
- $3,336,470,961 has been set aside for transportation systems development
- $82,871,195 has been earmarked for the department’s electric vehicle grant program
- $74,338,179 has been set aside for FDOT information technology
- $3,177,489 has been allocated to the Department of Transportation for its data infrastructure modernization project
- $3,000,000 has been earmarked for the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged to continue its innovative grant program for innovative service delivery
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- $17,972,273 has been earmarked for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s (FDLE) call center and license processing
- $17,289,526 has been set aside for FDLE information technology
- $10,000,000 has been earmarked for the replacement of the Florida Accounting Information Resource System (FLAIR)
- $6,802,399 has been set aside for the transfer to a planning and budgeting system
- $2,237,203 has been earmarked for data processing services from the Northwest Regional Data Center
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- $46,381,361 has been allocated to the Florida Department of Financial Services for its FLAIR system replacement
- $33,932,111 has been set aside for Florida Department of Financial Services information technology
- $21,336,976 has been earmarked under information technology for the department for FLAIR’s infrastructure
- $2,794,590 has been earmarked for the department of financial services to provide training support for the Florida Planning, Accounting and Ledger Management (PALM) project
- $2,689,216 in nonrecurring funds from the state’s administrative trust fund have been allocated to the Department of Financial Services to replace enterprise storage and database servers reaching end of life
- $1,500,000 in nonrecurring funds from the administrative trust fund has been earmarked for the Department of Financial Services for its workers’ compensation mainframe migration
COMMERCE
- $20,661,130 has been set aside for information systems and support services for the Florida Department of Commerce
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- $100,000,000 has been set aside for broadband equity, access and deployment grant programs
Industry Insider — Florida will examine another batch of agencies’ tech funding next week. In the meantime, the Legislature’s budget can be found online.
