Tag: services

May 25, 2023

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a dozen government spending bills into law on Wednesday, setting funding for the next two years. In total, the bills provide more than $500 million for technology initiatives across state government — with $130 million […]

May 16, 2023

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday two grants totaling $55 million for improvement and maintenance of the state’s emergency communications systems and call centers. One grant, the State Interoperable Communications Formula Grant or SICG-Formula, is worth $45 million and […]

May 16, 2023

Green Mountain Power has asked Vermont regulators for permission to lift the cap on its popular residential energy storage programs to expand customer access to battery backup power. GMP’s Powerwall program, in partnership with Tesla, and its Bring Your Own […]

May 15, 2023

When the Biden administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending law passed in 2021, one of the top questions for state technology leaders was how they would be expected to manage funds from the four-year, $1 billion cybersecurity grant program they’d pushed […]

April 26, 2023

A full year continuing resolution would hamper needed tech upgrades, according to the FAA’s top official. Read More on FCW

April 19, 2023

On Monday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed that state’s Transportation and Modernization Act into law, providing the state with a new strategy to accommodate its record growth in its rural and urban areas. The legislation will invest more than $3.3 […]

April 10, 2023

The energy transition is driving a fundamental reset of the traditional utility business model. There is an acceleration of interconnections of distributed energy resources (DERs) and large-scale renewables, a generation of utility experts are retiring, and the pandemic shifted a […]

April 7, 2023

PacifiCorp serves roughly 2 million customers across six states in the U.S., with a service territory that extends from eastern Wyoming to the Pacific Coast in Oregon. As a result, the utility has a large, spread-out system, with a lot […]

April 7, 2023

LUMA Energy is making progress upgrading Puerto Rico’s electric grid and has requested $8.2 billion from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support hundreds of modernization initiatives. The utility is advancing a “record number of critical reconstruction projects,” Juan Rodríguez, […]

March 29, 2023

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced a series of bills on Wednesday aimed at improving government operations around data management, digital identity and securing critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. The legislation advanced out of the committee included […]

March 16, 2023

Communication service providers (CSPs) know that nothing is predictable with network traffic. The changing nature of network patterns is a challenge when providing the always-on services that discerning clients demand. To address these challenges, 5G network slicing combines the coverage […]

March 15, 2023

The U.S. Department of Transportation opened applications Tuesday for the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program, a $2.5 billion, five-year program to support community and neighborhood electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The first round of funding will make $700 million […]

March 14, 2023

The administration is proposing a nearly $10 billion bump in federal spending to achieve its modernization goals, including several significant increases in spending on IT and cybersecurity at civilian agencies. Read More on FCW

March 7, 2023

Much of the current movement to decarbonize the grid involves installing many gigawatts of battery-based energy storage. Lithium-ion technology is leading the way with breathtaking advances that are addressing everything from improved performance to strategies to mitigate the risk of […]

February 28, 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is requesting state and local law enforcement agencies submit information on their current data practices for a report to President Joe Biden following an executive order aimed at increasing trust in […]

February 24, 2023

Department of Defense officials who authorized the use of commercial cloud services across components of the agency did not review all required documentation needed to determine potential security concerns, leaving DOD’s armed forces unaware of vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risks across […]

February 16, 2023

Agovernment that the public does not trust is collecting more of its data than ever before. Recent landmark data-privacy laws — like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act — reveal a growing interest […]

February 16, 2023

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) DDoS attacks refer to a malicious actor or actors temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network to render an entire network or website unavailable. While larger-scale DDoS attacks are predicted to rise, […]

February 16, 2023

Amp Americas, a pioneer in converting dairy waste into carbon-negative renewable transportation fuel and power, today announced that construction has begun on a dairy renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Darlington, Wisconsin, about 60 miles southwest of Madison in Lafayette […]

February 15, 2023

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Michael S. Reagan announced $2 billion in allotted funds to support grants for disadvantaged communities. The funds were made available via EPA’s Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities (EC-SDC) Grant Program, with the […]