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Colin Wood

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Colin Wood is StateScoop’s editor in chief. Contact him at colin.wood@statescoop.com or cwood.64 on Signal.

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Kristi Noem — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a TV interview with Fox News outside of the White House on March 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

MS-ISAC loses federal support for threat intelligence, incident response

Cybersecurity

Jay Harton — Jay Harton (State of Arkansas)

Arkansas names new IT director

State

Sanjay Gupta

Illinois CIO Sanjay Gupta to step down

State

Jim Pillen — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen speaks during a statue dedication ceremony for US writer and novelist Willa Cather, in Statuary Hall of the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2023. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)

Nebraska bans all Chinese Communist Party tech from state networks

Cybersecurity

Howard Lutnick — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, left, accompanied by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company CEO C.C. Wei, speaks as he joins President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Commerce Dept. revamping broadband program after ‘woke’ Biden-era mandates

Broadband

Wes Allen — Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen testifies during a hearing before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee at Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 12, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

Alabama’s secretary of state removed nearly 500,000 names from voter file

State

hawaii — An aerial view of destroyed and cleared properties with vegetation regrowth on year after the Lahaina wildfire on August 6, 2024 in Lahaina, Hawaii. August 8 marks the one-year anniversary of the Maui wildfires which killed 102 people and devastated the historic community of Lahaina in West Maui. Plaintiffs involved in the Lahaina wildfire lawsuits against the government and utilities have reached a $4 billion global settlement of claims. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Hawaii’s emergency decision support system was funded by FEMA

State

The silhouette of a finger is seen touching a button on a screen that says "touch here to cast your ballot" — (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

Republican secretaries of state ask DHS for better data to check for noncitizen voters

State

sheet of paper — (Getty Images)

Summary sheets on government RFPs go a long way, researchers find

Modernization