Florida Department of Environmental Protection
The recently launched portal allows eligible entities to submit proposals that help protect and restore the state’s water resources under various grant categories, including water restoration and innovative technology for harmful algae blooms.
In the first quarter of the year, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection procured goods and services from Environmental Risk Management Inc., Advanced Environmental Technologies LLC, Titan Facilities Inc., and more.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis reviews the state Legislature’s recently published $117.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2024-2025, Industry Insider — Florida has reviewed the 524-page document outlining potential tech funding for various state agencies.
Specific purchases of IT services by the Department of Environmental Protection in 2023 included $500,938 for information technology consultation services.
Scott McPherson, former CIO of the Florida House of Representatives, and Martin Stevens, CIO of the Department of Environmental Protection, met with members followed by a Q&A in Tallahassee this week.
The state’s environmental management and stewardship agency oversees 175 state parks and more than 12 million acres of public lands and has an estimated annual IT budget of $149.6 million.
The members-only event will feature the CIO of the Department of Environmental Protection and the former CIO of the Florida House of Representatives.
Over the next few years, the agency will focus on increasing data literacy, developing tools to assist with data acquisition, migrating applications to the cloud and modernizing its application platform.
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