NASCIO Unveils Part 2: Advancing Enterprise Architecture for State Government Transformation

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Today, NASCIO released part 2 of a series on business architecture: Enterprise Architecture – A Guide to State Government Continual Transformation. This publication builds on part 1, which was released in March. State governments are highly complex and diverse enterprises with often overlapping and conflicting business operations and direction. Understanding this complexity and creating some sense of order is necessary to drive change and make wise investments. It’s a tough challenge and one that requires discipline and commitment over time.

 

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Meredith Ward
Deputy Executive Director
National Association State Chief Information Offiers
[email protected]

NASCIO Statement on Efforts to Prevent State Enforcement of AI Laws for Ten Years

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NASCIO is extremely concerned by efforts from the U.S. House of Representatives to prohibit states from enforcing their AI statutes and regulations for the next ten years. States have not had the luxury of waiting for federal action on AI policy. As a result, they have forged ahead in creating their own AI standards that meet their unique needs, in consultation with the stakeholders and citizens who will be most directly impacted. Language in the reconciliation measure preventing them from enforcing these provisions undermines their efforts to deliver services to their citizens and ensure responsible data protections. We urge Congress to reject these provisions and work proactively with states to develop meaningful and effective AI policy.
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Meredith Ward
Deputy Executive Director
National Association of State Chief Information Officers

NASCIO Members Give Back During NASCIO 2025 Midyear Conference

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LEXINGTON, Ky., Thursday, May 8, 2025 — The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) donated over $41,500 to Level Up Philly as part of the association’s Give Back program. Level Up Philly delivers STEM education and essential digital resources to bridge the digital divide in Philadelphia. Their work cultivates a more inclusive technological landscape while fostering opportunity and advancement for all members of the community by investing in their tech skills. NASCIO’s 2025 Midyear Conference was held in Philadelphia April 28-May 1.

Donations were collected during the NASCIO 2025 Midyear Conference and NASCIO state, corporate and nonprofit members donated through individual contributions. NASCIO corporate members Armis, Infosys Public Services, Inc., Kyndryl, Rubrik, TekStream Solutions and Tyler Technologies, Inc. sponsored this Midyear’s Give Back program and contributed to the donation total.

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Meredith Ward
Deputy Executive Director
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
[email protected]

NASCIO Releases Unlocking Potential: Empowering Reentry through Cybersecurity Training

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Today, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released Unlocking Potential: Empowering Reentry through Cybersecurity Training. The public sector cybersecurity workforce is facing critical shortages that are expected to contribute to more than half of cybersecurity incidents by year’s end. Meanwhile, approximately 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons, and over nine million from municipal and county jails annually. Low-level, nonviolent offenders often struggle to build a stable life after reentering society from incarceration due to numerous factors, including a lack of adequate work experience and education. This publication explores how vocational, prison-based cybersecurity education programs can address cybersecurity workforce shortages, reduce recidivism and increase inclusion within the industry.  

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Kalea Young-Gibson
Policy Analyst
National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)
[email protected]

NASCIO Honors New Hampshire CIO Denis Goulet with 10 Year Service Award

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Lexington, Ky, Wednesday, April 30, 2025 — The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) recognizes New Hampshire Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Commissioner Denis Goulet with the Decade of Leadership Award for ten years of service to the State of New Hampshire as the CIO. Goulet joins a prestigious yet small group of CIOs who have reached this milestone.

After a three-decade career in private sector software companies, former Governor Maggie Hassan appointed Goulet commissioner of New Hampshire’s Department of Information Technology in 2015. His servant, innovative leadership in New Hampshire over the last ten years has allowed for remarkable improvements in the state’s technology. Some of Denis’ notable achievements include crafting New Hampshire’s first IT strategic plan in over a decade, leading New Hampshire IT through uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic, migrating towards more cloud platforms, implementing multi-agency enterprise solutions and significantly improving New Hampshire’s cybersecurity posture while upgrading its network systems and infrastructure.

Denis has also served NASCIO as fiercely as he has served New Hampshire. After serving on the NASCIO Executive Committee for two years, Goulet was elected Vice President, then President of NASCIO in February 2020, brilliantly leading NASCIO through the pandemic. Denis was also awarded NASCIO’s Meritorious Service Award in 2023. Denis currently serves on the NASCIO Executive Committee as Past President.

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Meredith Ward
Deputy Executive Director
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
[email protected]

NASCIO Technology Champion Award Honors Brownsville, TX CIO Jorge Cardenas

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Lexington, Ky, Wednesday, April 30, 2025 — The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has awarded Jorge Cardenas, Chief Information Officer for the City of Brownsville, Texas, with the association’s 2025 Technology Champion Award. In the award nomination, Cardenas was described as putting a special emphasis on the importance of technology to city operations and citizen experience. He was nominated by Sharon Murphy, Marketing Senior Specialist, NTT DATA.

During Jorge’s three years in Brownsville, he created the city’s first information technology department, updated the city’s network infrastructure to 5G, built out one hundred miles of mid-mile fiber and partnered with an internet service provider to invest in the last mile. As a city that is close to the border of Mexico, there are unique challenges that it must address. The improvements that Jorge has implemented are expected to solve real-time issues like stopping stolen vehicles from crossing the border by using license plate reader technology, detecting unmanned arial vehicles and improving perimeter security at the airport. These updgrades are also expected to attract more businesses to the city, creating job opportunities and fostering economic growth.

NASCIO created the Technology Champion Award in 2003 to recognize outstanding individual contributions to the field of information technology in the public sector. Recipients further NASCIO’s vision of a government in which the public is fully served through the efficient and effective use of technology policy.

Learn more about the NASCIO Technology Champion award and prior recipients at www.nascio.org/awards.

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Meredith Ward
Deputy Executive Director
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
[email protected]

NASCIO Releases Guide to Building a State Privacy Program

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Amy Glasscock
Program Director, Innovation & Emerging Issues
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
[email protected]

NASCIO Testifies on State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program

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WASHINGTON, DC., Monday, March 31, 2025— Tomorrow, NASCIO Secretary and Treasurer Alan Fuller, CIO for the State of Utah, and Mark Raymond, CIO for the State of Connecticut will testify before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection on the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. They will highlight how the grant has helped states to address critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities and assist local communities in improving their cyber defenses. NASCIO supports reauthorization of this important grant program and looks forward to working with Congress to assist states in protecting critical technology infrastructure.

Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Hearing:
Cybersecurity is Local, Too: Assessing the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program;
Tuesday, April 1st 10:00 – 12:00 pm ET,
310 Cannon House Office Building
Link: https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/cybersecurity-is-local-too-assessing-the-state-and-local-cybersecurity-grant-program/

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Alex Whitaker
Director of Government Affairs
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
[email protected]

NASCIO statement regarding cuts to MS-ISAC funding

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NASCIO statement regarding cuts to MS-ISAC funding:

MS-ISAC has been tremendously beneficial to state and local governments since its inception over 20 years ago. It provides significant, no cost services to state, local, tribal and territorial governments including cyber incident response teams, threat notifications, information sharing and the Nationwide Cybersecurity Review, of which NASCIO is a partner and strong supporter. The MS-ISAC services provided to local, tribal and territorial governments are especially critical as these entities face high threats from bad actors yet generally have no or low budgets to combat cybersecurity threats. 

NASCIO Testifies on AI to VT House Committee

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NASCIO Senior Policy Analyst Amy Glasscock testified at the Vermont House Committee on Energy and Technology hearing on Artificial Intelligence on April 23. A recording of the hearing is available, as is her written testimony.