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- 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.
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The agency has published an RFP looking for vendors who can deliver digital and traditional outreach for child-care programming; website and mobile app design are among the requirements.
Caseworkers and foster care providers often get incomplete and inaccurate information about foster children in their care because of the state child welfare agency’s outdated technology system.
Requirements for the system include portrait and signature capabilities and the ability to interface with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announced grants totaling more than $94 million to complete 59 transportation projects, including two in Texas.
Abilene is asking for proposals from vendors for digital advertising hardware and software in its main airport terminal.
This agency, which operates under the direction and supervision of the Supreme Court of Texas and the chief justice, has an estimated annual IT budget of $3.8 million.
Legislation introduced earlier this month intends to complement the federal CHIPS and Science Act passed last year, creating a new consortium and fund.
The agency that monitors environmental impacts spent $980,530 in February, mostly on consulting and telecom services.
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Also on the university’s to-do list is facilitating projects like an Apple device management unification and implementing a centralized technology procurement program.
The job would entail developing strategies, direction and priorities for service delivery, managing enterprise program areas and other supervisory responsibilities.
The system allows patrons to interchangeably access books, CDs, audiobooks, articles, DVDs, microfilm and other materials from libraries across the state.
The agency has been deliberating ending the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and will need to address all aspects, including data and IT needs.
The department has an estimated IT budget of $574 million and is responsible for developing and operating the state’s integrated transportation system.
Bills aim to provide additional funding to the state's Broadband Development Office; however, each would require approval from voters before becoming law.
A feasibility study has been authorized; however, it doesn’t guarantee a new building, said one commissioner.
Officials confirmed digital evidence was lost; here’s a look at the process Dallas police use to manage and store video.
Spending included payments to 162 agencies and almost 2,400 vendors.
The software would allow employees to enroll dependents in health insurance benefit plans, update certain benefit plan elections and designate beneficiaries for life insurance plans.
The HHS Office of the Inspector General outlined rates of return for upgrading IT, impacting investigations and audits.
Also included in the city’s FY 2022-2023 approved budget are plans to implement a modern ERP system, replace the telephone system and update all 911 processing systems.
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