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The state agency is asking for 73 full-time employees across the organization alongside money for software modernization and upkeep to support growing responsibilities.
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Established this year by the 88th Legislature, the Texas Space Commission is surveying the market for a scalable customer relationship management system.
The state’s IT agency has spent in the hundreds of millions each with Rackspace, Deloitte and Atos, companies that provide multiple services impacting the Texas digital infrastructure.
Smaller Texas municipalities have made recent breach reports to the Office of the Attorney General, as required by law.
A temporary RSOC was opened in a swing space in 2023. The new center will occupy a larger space, accompanied by a 60-seat classroom, office space, conference rooms, a forensics space, and more.
Texas A&M researchers found adult education programs often lack sufficient access to technology, funding to maintain or upgrade what they have, and professional development necessary to use and teach it.
Industry Insider — Texas is pleased to welcome Box to the Industry Insider family. The company offers the public sector multiple products that support citizen and employee experiences. Collaboration, e-signature, app integration and process automation are just a few of the pieces Box brings together. For more information, contact Eric Roy or Murtaza Masood or visit the Box website.
The agency is looking for a cloud-based applicant tracker with criminal background and social media reporting capabilities for hiring law enforcement.
The Department of Information Resources’ Innovation Lab is the state’s facility for testing emerging technology, educating state agencies on technology best practices and partnering with vendors on new solutions.
Communications among first responders across the Permian Basin are more advanced thanks to three towers built in part with federal funds.
Montgomery County will test a first response program similar to one that Pearland has in place, using drones to arrive more quickly. The ACLU has questions.
The system must be capable of supporting both in-person and virtual events, such as career fairs, information sessions and office hours.
The database rolled out last week as part of the 88th Legislature’s mandated agency tech tools.
The agency, tasked with serving vulnerable Texans, spent the most with DIR and AT&T in the fiscal year that ended last month. In all, it spent $33.8 million with its top five industry vendors.
DIR Deputy Executive Director Steve Pier and Deputy State CIO John Hoffman discussed the upcoming budgeting session and what causes procurement negotiations to fail at a recent Government Technology event.
Frontier Communications, which moved headquarters to Dallas a year ago from Connecticut, will bring 2.2 million fiber broadband subscribers in 25 states to Verizon’s base of 7.4 million fiber users.
The commission intends to advertise for a cloud solution that will make data and reporting requirements easier to manage across three areas of responsibility.
Multiple Texas and federal law enforcement agencies use Tangles, a controversial AI-powered platform that scrapes the web. Texas DPS first purchased it in 2021, after Operation Lone Star began.
The city has approved a total budget of $1.3 billion; the document describes its Department of Information Technology Services as key to high-performing government.
The agency is asking the 89th Legislature to fund modernization efforts that will enhance the visitor experience.
The state's largest county is seeking a new system to merge the contract management efforts of its 34 cities under a single solution.
Industry Insider — Texas is pleased to welcome ServiceNow to the Industry Insider family. ServiceNow provides enterprise cloud software for state and local government and helps them provide seamless public services. The company, founded in 2003, has worked with governments around the world and Fortune 500 companies. For more information, contact Alexandra Vermeer, Ali Lakhani or visit ServiceNow.com.
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Tamara Fields is appointed as the U.S. leader of Accenture Public Service, leveraging her extensive experience in government efficiency and community support through innovative technologies.
Exploring the integration of generative AI in public services to enhance efficiency, fairness and preparedness for future technological shifts
This roundtable explores structuring government revenue systems around property identification rather than citizen identities. Tying processes back to property allows connecting internal systems for consistency. Agencies should prioritize solutions enabling open data sharing across departments and take an incremental approach to modernizing one system at a time.
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DIR Discover: Exploring Data and Tech will be held at the Palmer Events Center on Tuesday, October 22nd with preconference sessions on Monday, October 21st.
