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H.R. 1 has significantly reshaped the operating environment for health and human services agencies, increasing both oversight and administrative demands across programs like SNAP and Medicaid. The legislation raises the stakes by tightening expectations around payment accuracy — placing SNAP agencies at risk of financial penalties if error rates exceed 6% by 2028 — while also expanding eligibility verification requirements, such as requiring certain Medicaid recipients to undergo recertification twice a year instead of annually.
AI is already inside your organization. The question is whether you are in control of it, or it is in control of you.
Why Traditional IT Cost Metrics Fail in the AI Era—and What Leaders Should Measure Instead
Accelerating AI-Driven Transformation for State Labor Agencies
A major new study of 250 public sector executives reveals why AI adoption in government lags the private sector, where it’s quietly succeeding, and what it will take to scale.
Attackers continuously adjust their methods. Stopping them requires a fast, flexible and always-evolving approach to identity verification.
A focused, practitioner led webinar on modernizing Oracle legacy environments with minimal risk and no disruption to mission operations.
Join our webinar on 5/14 to modernize grant management with Smartsheet. Learn scalable workflows, compliance tracking, integrations, and Control Center to reduce admin burden.
Join us for a technical workshop with a demonstration and hands-on lab designed to empower you with the technical knowledge needed to navigate the threat landscape.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption in government is accelerating, driven by pressure to improve service delivery, expand self-service and meet rising constituent expectations. But AI does not create maturity. Rather, it amplifies what already exists. Without strong content governance, AI introduces new risk rather than new value.
Modern identity solutions are key to service access and program integrity.
In my previous blog, I talked about how government agencies have been experimenting with AI through small pilots and assessments. These initiatives helped build familiarity, test guardrails and determine what works.
Migration from Oracle databases and legacy Oracle applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or multi-cloud scenarios!
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Latest News
What to Know:
- DIR transferred statewide cybersecurity employees and functions to Texas Cyber Command on March 1.
- DIR will retain internal cybersecurity responsibilities and vendor-focused security oversight within its Shared Technology Services program.
- Cyber Command has assumed DIR’s former roles tied to prohibited technologies and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program.
What to Know:
- Houston IT Services is proposing a 10.8 percent budget increase, up from $145.7 million.
- The plan includes police technology needs, airport cybersecurity and library IT consolidation.
- Other focus areas include cloud, data centers, network modernization, cybersecurity training and AI governance.
Industry Insider — Texas will not publish a newsletter Monday in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. The newsletter will resume Wednesday morning.
