State Tech Magazine

MAY 2, 2023

The department depends on three different IT funding models to finance its portfolio, Clark said at NASCIO 2023 Midyear, which is being held at Maryland’s National Harbor outside Washington, D.C. As CIO, Clark works as a government official in the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget. First and foremost,…

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

28, Syracuse Director of Strategic Initiatives Jennifer Tifft will participate in Smart Cities Connect 2023 on a panel, The National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology and Implications for Smart Cities and Communities. In 2020, StateTech named Syracuse, N.Y., as a top Smart City to Watch.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In April 2023, Fort Lauderdale City Hall’s basement flooded after 26 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, knocking the government’s headquarters out of commission and causing IT outages. 2023 set a record for having the most billion-dollar climate disasters in recorded history.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The culmination of this program will be the 2023 AWS Space Accelerator demo day, taking place on July 19 in San Francisco. This event provides an opportunity for participating startups to showcase their cloud-powered solutions.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 4, 2025

When Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank failed in 2023, they marked two of the largest bank failures in U.S. Some worried that other banks might fail too and that regulators had not done enough to prevent these and future failures.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 11, 2025

This marks a steep decline from the prior year$236 billion in FY 2023. The federal government reported an estimated $162 billion in payment errorsor improper paymentsduring fiscal year 2024. This decline was largely due to the termination of or.

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Careers in Government

JANUARY 9, 2023

The post The Most Promising New Career Trend for 2023 appeared first on Careers in Government. Soft skills, which are also known as power skills, common skills, or core skills, are attributes that are applicable to all professions.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 24, 2024

million in 2023 Ignoring updates to software and operating systems that prevent exploitation of known security flaws can prove devastating both operationally and financially. Ransomware recovery costs alone more than doubled over the past year for state and local governments, from $1.21

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2023, the AWS Space Accelerator will call on teams and resources across Amazon to help emerging startups focus on cloud-powered solutions that support the use of space as a sustainable and usable environment for years to come, as well as solutions that positively impact life on Earth.

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Next City

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Our gift recommendations for urbanists who care about creating equitable cities.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2023, click here. Alaska CIO Bill Smith, Ohio CIO Katrina Flory and Minnesota CIO Tarek Tomes discuss their top priorities, which include cybersecurity, digital transformation and citizen services.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Explore some of our most visually engaging, “only McKinsey” insights of 2023—brought to life with innovative, interactive forms of storytelling.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Nominations are now open for the Future of Government Awards 2023 , a global awards program that celebrates practitioners, teams, and leaders who are transforming people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves. Nominations will close on December 14, 2023.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2023, click here. And what more can CIOs do to create a smooth experience for their constituents? Minnesota CIO Tarek Tomes and Ohio CIO Katrina Flory share their perspectives.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

FedNow® launched in June 2023, and is the Federal Reserve’s new system for instant payments. Watch the re:Invent 2023 public sector Innovation Talk. Instant payments go federal: The final featured customer speaker was Dan Anthony, executive vice president and chief information officer of FedNow® at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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Next City

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We've collected our top reporting and analysis from this year on the solutions that liberate cities.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It found critical infrastructure was the target of nearly 70% of global cyberattacks in 2023. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reported that international adversaries were discovered on U.S. critical infrastructure networks, where they had remained undetected for up to five years.

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Disaster Zone blog

JULY 6, 2023

Cyber attack forecast for this summer.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The report notes that major incidents in which attackers used stolen valid account credentials were associated with more complex response measures by defenders, at a rate 190% greater than for…

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2023, click here. What are the challenges to data governance, and what can states do to accelerate evolution? Minnesota CIO Tarek Tomes and North Carolina CIO James Weaver offer their perspectives.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Follow the action on social media Get even more announcements, customer and expert interviews, and behind-the-scenes content by following the #reInvent hashtag on Twitter and by following @AWS_Gov , @AWS_Edu , and @AWS_Nonprofits on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest news from re:Invent 2023.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

MARCH 26, 2024

The federal government reported an estimated $236 billion in “improper payments” during the most recently completed fiscal year (FY 2023). Such payments are essentially payment errors that can be the result of many things—include overpayments.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2023, click here. How can states leverage its potential and mitigate the associated risks? Alaska CIO Bill Smith and Texas CIO Amanda Crawford discuss, and share AI use cases from their states.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In his state, “there are a couple of agencies that started recently, and not having any technical debt, they were able to take advantage of cloud pretty quickly and do more cloud-native things,” Kagansky said Tuesday during a NASCIO 2023 panel in Minneapolis. Our Georgia Data Analytics Center started right in the…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

To celebrate the leaders and organizations that are propelling the academic landscape forward, AWS announced the 2023 cohort of Education Champions at IMAGINE: Education, State and Local Leaders 2023 Conference. This year, the program was expanded internationally.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 18, 2024

If 2023 was the year of the manager and the launchpad for generative AI, what will 2024 bring for talent leaders?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made more than 140 announcements at re:Invent 2023. Take advantage of generative AI 2023 was a big year for generative AI at AWS. Learn more Read the Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 blog post for more information on announcements across analytics, databases, security, generative AI, ML, and more.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

At the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ annual conference, Arizona interim CISO Ryan Murray spoke Monday at a workshop panel on whole-of-state cybersecurity. Prior to the workshop, StateTech spoke to Murray about similar security initiatives in Arizona. STATETECH: Can you tell us a little bit about your background?

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 18, 2024

On April 12, 2023, the city of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., got 26 inches of rain in 24 hours. The City Hall basement flooded, taking the government’s headquarters out of commission. The deluge came as CIO Tamecka McKay was leading the city through a massive IT modernization effort.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For more insights from our coverage of NASCIO 2023, click here. How are they addressing these hurdles? Texas CIO Amanda Crawford and North Carolina CIO James Weaver provide their perspectives.

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State Tech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2024

1 “hotspot” for state and local contracting, noting that bids pertaining to scaling cloud increased 39 percent since 2023, more than any other procurement area. GovWin has identified scaling cloud services as its No.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

Many state and local governments are still on their cloud adoption journeys and looking for ways to bolster their efforts.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Research from CrowdStrike shows that between July 2022 and June 2023, government was the second most frequently targeted industry by nation-state adversaries looking to compromise systems. State and local governments continue to be under siege.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

APRIL 28, 2023

When Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed in March, they suffered two of the largest bank failures in U.S. Today, we released our first report on these bank failures. While we continue to look into a number of related issues, today.

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Next City

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Staff picked the stories that moved them this year — each shows the power of solutions journalism to highlight how people are creating cities where everyone can thrive.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2023, 88% of state CIOs began, or resumed, the process of expediting cloud adoption. Multicloud and hybrid cloud environments have become the new norm for state and local government agencies. Most, if not all, states have moved at least some of their core functions into the cloud.

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Summer Camp Programming

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this episode, Shauna gives a detailed rundown of her experiences at the Women in Camp Summit 2023, also known as WICS.

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