Dru Rai, who's worked for Ball Corporation and DuPont, will serve as New York's next chief information officer, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

Boston Chief Information Officer Santiago Garces said he hopes the new plan will keep the city adaptable in the face of evolving technologies.

Nebraska CIO Ed Toner told StateScoop that if high availability isn't a technologist's top priority, "it should be."

Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed Joe McIntosh to be the state's next chief information officer after Jerry Moore's resignation this week.

Richard McHattie, the new chief information officer of Maricopa County, Arizona, started his career putting RFID chips in pets.

Shawn Nailor, who spent 35 years in Vermont state government before unexpectedly becoming CIO last year, is retiring.

Grant announced he plans to resign July 1 as head of the Florida Digital Service, the three-year-old agency he was instrumental in creating.

Peter Mantos, New Mexico's CIO since June 2022, will leave that role and join Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office to oversee IT projects.

Government Sourcing Solutions, which advises tech vendors on state procurement processes, has hired former Colorado CIO Theresa Szczurek and former Maryland CIO Michael Leahy.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker nominated Sanjay Gupta, who spent five years as CTO of the U.S. Small Business Administration, as Illinois' next CIO.