(Getty Images) Arkansas canceled child welfare IT upgrade after two years, $12M After $12 million of development over two years, Arkansas cut its losses on attempted upgrade to its child welfare platform. Sep 8, 2025 By Sophia Fox-Sowell
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, left, sits in a Baton Rouge diner with Bryan Adams, the state’s fire marshal. (Gov. Jeff Landry’s Office) Louisiana’s governor announces new IT vendor on his diner-themed podcast Louisiana has selected Champ Titles as its vendor to upgrade the state's failing vehicle registration and driver's licensing system. Jul 30, 2025 By Colin Wood
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to a crowd on July 8, 2025 in Florence, South Carolina. (Sean Rayford / Getty Images) California governor unveils ‘Breakthrough Project’ to streamline state operations California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new project that requires all state agencies to identify ways to improve their performance. Jul 15, 2025 By Sophia Fox-Sowell
Katie Savage speaks at CyberTalks 2022 in Washington. (Pepe Gomez / PixelMe Studio / Scoop News Group) Maryland ‘looking at everything’ after governor’s modernization and efficiency order Chief Information Officer Katie Savage said the state is looking expansively at how to improve efficiency in the government. Jun 20, 2025 By Keely Quinlan
Priorities Podcast Inside New Jersey’s AI-powered ‘warm callback’ system Two technology officials from New Jersey say AI is boosting productivity, reducing wait times and keeping the human front and center. Jun 11, 2025 By StateScoop Staff
(Getty Images) One-stop licensing portal project comes with challenges, says West Virginia’s CIO West Virginia Chief Information Officer Heather Abbott says she has roughly one year to navigate the state's many old IT systems to develop a single portal for… May 20, 2025 By Colin Wood
(Getty Images) Florida’s transformative IT bill unanimously passes Senate A bill that would create a larger and centralized IT agency in Florida has passed the state Senate with zero no-votes. Apr 10, 2025 By Colin Wood
(Getty Images) Florida tries (again) to fix ‘absolute unmitigated tire fire’ that is state IT Former Florida Chief Information Officer Jamie Grant said the latest proposal to overhaul state IT has a lot of problems to overcome. Mar 26, 2025 By Colin Wood
Tennessee moving old systems to the cloud Some of Tennessee’s current IT modernization projects include updating the Department of Labor’s unemployment insurance platform. Dec 30, 2024 By Colin Wood Jake Williams
Alaska moving services portal to mobile app Alaska soon plans to expand its single sign-on portal for state services to a mobile app, state CIO Bill Smith says. Dec 23, 2024 By Colin Wood Jake Williams