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- Myers spent nearly 14 years at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
- He announced the move in a LinkedIn post, where he expressed gratitude for mentors and emphasized a continued commitment to public service.
- Myers joins DIR during a leadership transition, with Amanda Crawford appointed insurance commissioner and Tony Sauerhoff now serving as interim CIO.
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A request for offers regarding application and infrastructure services for the financial and human resources/payroll platform supporting 118 agencies has been extended.
The city of Dallas has given some updates and continues to use workarounds for some departments.
The biennial budget’s funding followed an agency appropriation request to enable the consolidation of disparate systems.
Bills relating to competitive bidding, contract validity, exempting certain contracts and reporting requirements are currently making their way through the state’s Legislature.
The appropriations for the state agency include a combined $120 million for data center consolidation; ongoing modernization is also funded.
One of the city’s top projects is a $3.2 million replacement and upgrade of electrical switchgear to install new technology.
To keep up with recent population growth, Missouri City has issued a bid for traffic engineering services, including transportation studies and design projects.
House Bill 9 will allocate $1.5 billion to the Texas Broadband Infrastructure Fund to expand high-speed Internet access throughout the state.
The Health and Human Services Commission’s biennial budget will likely include $394 million for continuing MMIS modernization and upkeep.
The late April numbers include agency spending, commodity spending and various other insights into how the state works with historically underutilized businesses.
Industry Insider — Texas will not publish a newsletter Monday in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. The newsletter will resume Wednesday morning.
A few services of interest include Workday, IBM MAS-8 and IBM TAS-12. The goal is to use these SaaS platforms to assist employees in delivering port services.
Three potential upcoming cooperative contracts are in planning stages with opportunities for large and small vendors.
The city of Houston is looking to hire a senior staff analyst to oversee capital projects and a senior IT project manager to join its airport program management office.
In collaboration with several partners, the agency has published two new data sets showcasing reservoir-specific evaporation across the state.
Rolling up under Texas A&M leadership, this agency plans and coordinates the state during disasters.
The Department of Public Safety would use the solution to identify and investigate various types of biometric data and share information with different agencies.
The Department of Information Resources will be at an educational and networking event for historically underutilized businesses.
Three weeks after a ransomware attack targeted several of the city of Dallas’ servers, police are still having trouble accessing physical and digital evidence, disrupting trials.
State and local governments may not have a lot of money to spend on the personnel and expertise needed to combat the eventual attacks. Unfortunately, some agencies are lacking even when it comes to the basics of cyberdefense.
The Texas General Land Office has made more than 6,000 purchases of IT goods so far this year and spent $24 million on its top five buys.
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