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The commissioners court discussed replacing voting iPads, which will cost at least $128,000, and purchasing additional voting machines.
A math software renewal is made possible by COVID-19 relief monies, but that funding is set to expire. Student math skills have shown improvement since implementation.
The requested solution will replace WSA’s on-prem phone system with a scalable, cloud-hosted alternative that supports a mix of physical endpoints, laptop-based softphones and a smartphone mobile app.
“We are pleased to provide an improved user experience with our new website accessibility features, so all members can access our job-critical content,” said Mike Driessen, publisher of Industry Insider and vice president of member services for e.Republic.
As part of Industry Insider — Texas’ ongoing efforts to educate readers on state and local government, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
DIR’s Neil Cooke speaks with Governing’s podcast crew about data management and its impact on AI; he also discusses how his agency and the Legislature are leading data and AI policy.
The board seeks a vendor to develop marketing and communications for the Texas Water Data Hub.
Bill Zielinski will move on from his leadership position after four years in Dallas. He said he will move into the private sector after 30 years as a federal and local government IT pro.
Panelists shared their progress and the remaining roadblocks to implementing AI at the recent Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications conference.
School districts are asking May voters to say yes to bond packages that will fund technology, safety, classroom space and sports upgrades.
A qualified contractor has been requested to develop, manage, implement, test and maintain a secure cloud fax solution that is highly available, scalable and available as software as a service.
The college requires a solution that can streamline academic assessment data collection.
Summer is around the corner; in even years, this means strategic planning and budget request deadlines prior to the Legislature’s January 2025 convening.
The panel of representatives from state agencies and higher education institutions shared how vendors can help their products stand out at the recent Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications conference.
Of the $60 million spent by TxDOT in Q4, $29 million went to five vendors.
The NoTraffic platform is rolling out across Arlington, one of many cities in North Texas adopting the latest traffic tech.
The requested solution must continuously monitor the university’s spending to identify high-risk transactions and patterns that could lead to financial loss.
Proposed solutions must utilize ambient listening, support offline data gathering, be mappable to the center’s existing notes and embeddable in its existing electronic health record, Streamline.
Large data centers are being built across the state, bringing new demands to the power grid. The use of AI, cloud computing and even bitcoin are contributors, according to experts.
Cyber firm Mandiant published a report this week that indicates Sandworm attacked Muleshoe’s water system.
Ransomed information has made it to the dark web, where hacking group Medusa published TAD documents including tax exemption applications and employee information.
The latest Industry Insider fireside chat features longtime state procurement officer Hershel Becker answering vendors’ questions about selling tech in Texas.
The agency is seeking a system with a web portal for participants to register for SMS or email reminders.
The requested mobile application must be cross-platform and support push notifications, data syncing, attendance tracking and survey feedback analytics. The deadline for vendor questions is today.
The center publishes research, white papers and training to enhance the safety stance in Texas public education; this includes physical and digital safety.
The county commissioners court decided on a Tyler Tech product in 2020, but since the 2022 roll out, the results include longer incarcerations, large extra expenditures and layers of problems within the local criminal justice system.
The department plans to release a solicitation for a cloud-based traffic monitoring system upgrade using artificial intelligence.
The budget includes at least nine new IT projects with budgets of at least $1 million, as well as a $36 million budget for its IT Department.
The Health and Human Services Commission was the top spender in this category, which includes computer programming, website design and programming, and some staffing.
The school district is looking to expand its current contract management system, which uses CobbleStone Software’s Contract Insight.
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