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From left: Tamarah Holmes, director of the Office of Broadband at the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development; Kelly Schlegel, director of the New Mexico Office of Broadband Expansion; and Jade Piros de Carvalho, director of the Kansas Office of Broadband Development speak with Drew Clark, editor and publisher of Broadband Breakfast, at an event in Washington on June 27. (Scoop News Group)

State broadband officials call grant awards ‘wonderful,’ if less than expected

State broadband officials reacted to awards from the Broadband, Equity, Accessibility, and Deployment grant program with a mix of excitement and curiosity.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on May 1 in Simi Valley, California. (David McNew / Getty Images)

Virginia to drop degree requirements for state jobs

Virginia's governor announced that degree requirements and preferences for the majority of classified state jobs will be dropped come July.
State officials speak at the Nutanix Cloud Together Summit
State officials speak at the Nutanix Cloud Together Summit. L-R: Wayne Webster, senior director of state and local government and education for Nutanix; Aliscia Andrews, deputy secretary of homeland security for the Commonwealth of Virginia; Austin Miller, CTO, Maryland Transport Administration. (FedScoop)

Cloud driving greater data efficiency, state officials say

Cloud migration has helped agencies in Virginia and Maryland to more efficiently and securely manage large data sets.
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The new headquarters of Amazon, which plans to create 25,000 new jobs, is under construction in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, on May 13, 2020. (Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty Images)

Arlington, Va., shakes up IT leadership as longtime CIO steps aside

Jack Belcher, the D.C. suburb's longtime CIO, is moving into the new role of chief technology information officer.
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