News
Top Story
What to Know:
- TxDOT’s 2026-2027 budget includes $394 million for IT modernization, cybersecurity and connected infrastructure.
- Capital funding supports facility upgrades and embedded tech to improve operations and data collection.
- Recent AI strategy shifts TxDOT from pilot projects to agencywide deployments in automation and analytics.
Top News Stories
The Bringing Online Opportunities to Texas program funding is available to applicants who can help provide last-mile broadband.
The department oversees the state’s affordable housing, community and energy assistance programs and has an estimated annual IT budget of $16 million.
Joshua Kuntz, with more than 20 years in public sector technology, has moved to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Chris Stewart has moved to an executive advisory role as Kerrica Laake moves into an interim leadership role.
The leadership role has an annual salary of at least $91,910, and the city will take applications through April.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles’ five largest IT purchases this year landed in the high seven figures, with its highest payment to a single vendor totaling $3.3 million.
Government Technology annually highlights 25 forward-thinking state tech leaders, and Texas CIO Amanda Crawford is among this year’s honorees.
In this case, the university would use the streamlined solution to verify new hires’ identities and employment authorizations.
The members-only event in Austin will feature the CIO of the state Department of Agriculture and the IT director of the Texas Office of Court Administration.
San Antonio's Metro Health, also serving Bexar County, will take competitive sealed bids to automate and better manage its data workflows and reporting requirements.
TechShare.Court software has been in development for years and has yet to be launched; the county has spent more than $26.6 million on the effort and will spend more.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has asked vendors to submit quotes to procure network hardware to replace existing network switches.
Recently approved budget documents estimate the state’s 2024-2025 budget will total $302.7 billion. With that comes a lot of money for state agencies to purchase and upgrade tech.
The largest agency in the state has a $1.7 billion IT budget and multiple tech projects in various stages.
The sale of thousands of computers contained criminal justice data from the sheriff’s office and potentially information from other departments.
Industry Insider — Texas is pleased to welcome OpenGov to the Industry Insider family. The company serves more than 1,600 agencies across the U.S. and is built exclusively for the public sector’s unique budgeting, procurement and citizen services needs. For more information about the company, go to opengov.com or contact Andrew Stout.
The $1.2 million contract with 21Tech is set to run for five years and is in its first year.
The comptroller will award a new contract for application and infrastructure services for the financial and human resources/payroll platform that supports 118 agencies.
This type of drone control will enable police officers to follow movements without necessarily being on site, in turn covering larger distances during an incident or crime.
The Department of Agriculture, which oversees food regulation as well as the state's school lunch programs, has spent the most money on nutrition-related services including management software.
The city transportation department is gathering information on software to help manage conflicts in the right of way, present data to the public and integrate with other systems.
Contributed Content
Oracle’s DB@ partnerships refers to initiatives in which Oracle offers its flagship database products as managed services running directly within other major cloud providers' infrastructure — AWS, Azure, & Google.
This year marked the inception of BMC Helix as an independent company. And we’re not just growing. We’re building for the future, boldly and for the long term. That’s why being recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2025 report is more than recognition.
Whether launching a customer-facing app or a cloud-native platform or integrating emerging technologies, effective quality assurance (QA) ensures software performs flawlessly, consistently, securely and swiftly. With AI, this strategic pillar of modern enterprises is undergoing a transformation — evolving into intelligent QA that delivers greater speed, precision and adaptability in testing.
Upcoming Events
