View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2023 – NJAC County Biz – March by PKA Technologies, Inc. Government agencies across the country are facing unprecedented technology challenges. Decades-old IT infrastructure often hinders efforts to support growing numbers of remote workers while also meeting increasing constituent demand for expanded online services. In a 2021 Accenture study, 75 percent of public-sector leaders agreed that outdated technology was holding them back. Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solutions create a path to IT modernization with flexible c...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2023 – NJAC County Biz – February by PSE&G PSE&G provides residential and business customers throughout the state of New Jersey with energy efficiency program offerings designed to save energy and money. Energy efficiency is the use of less energy to perform the same task and is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to reduce energy costs, lower greenhouse gas emissions, address climate change and impact economic health (through the creation of  clean energy jobs, leading to increased employment).  PSE&G’s $1 billion...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2023 – NJAC County Biz – January by Brad Fay, Chief Communications Officer for Somerset County Somerset County thinks of itself as the “crossroads of the crossroads of the American Revolution,” based on its rich history. That’s just one reason why the county in 2022 became the first in the nation to update and then combine its historic, open space, and farmland preservation plans into a single, comprehensive plan. Adopted by the Somerset County Planning Board in May 2022, the plan has already won two awards, from the New Jersey Planning O...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – December by Teresa Mask, AT&T Corporate Communications New portal is aligned with the Biden Administration’s efforts to address the climate crisis and make communities across America more resilient to climate change What’s the news? AT&T*, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) announced the launch of the Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR), which advances access to cutting-edge science for climate projections to help...

  View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – November by Cameron Cushing, Intern Industry Marketing for UKG Awareness of the need for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI&B) initiatives has exploded in recent years, with the private sector leading the way on implementation.  But how can public sector organizations adapt to be more representative of the communities that they serve? And what’s the science behind DEI&B, both in origin and impact? The Need for DEI&B In a new webinar, Dr. Jarik Conrad – Executive Director of The...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – October by Teri O'Connor, Monmouth County Administrator & NJAC President It’s not common practice for county government and community stakeholders to come to the table to identify issues in their service network, and create and implement solutions for powerful collective impact. But Monmouth County Government is changing the status quo. No longer siloed, Monmouth County government departments and community organizations are working cooperatively with a simple goal: serving residents better, together.   ...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – August by David Cumbow, Principal Solutions Architect for Palo Alto Networks       New Jersey local government agencies have technical infrastructure that spans from regular business networks, to service provider offerings, to public safety and other critical services. When greenfield projects do come along, we tend to focus on applying our security frameworks with controls that are unique to that deployment. This results in a story that we are all familiar with – nonintegrated, siloed security solutions with vario...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – July by Ward Zerbe, Vice President & Ozette Brown, Sr. Customer Success Manager, Infotech       When state agencies make the transition from paper bidding to electronic, it can feel like a switch is getting flipped. Everything from filing cabinets to postage stamps instantly feel like an artifact of the past. But while the benefits of      e-bidding are sudden, the process of instituting it is often less so. As we look back at the previous two decades of electronic bidding in New Jersey, we see major milestones...

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – June by Ferlanda Fox Nixon, Esq., Chief of Policy & External Affairs for African American Chamber of Commerce of NJ       “For the past 15 years, the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (AACCNJ) has sought to economically empower and sustain African-American communities through entrepreneurship and capitalistic activities within the state of New Jersey and via interaction with the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc.,” states John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM, the AACCNJ’s Founder, President, and CEO....

View the entire newsletter for more articles:  2022 – NJAC County Biz – May by Raj Juttukonda, Right Angle Solutions       It is no small task to measure, track and compare investment requests for programs that are supported by taxpayer’s levy or other grant sources. There are numerous steps required for approvals many of which are validated only at the end of the cycle.    Especially when Counties rely on spreadsheets to manage the process the accuracy of the data and the ability to retrieve information is challenging. Fortunately, technology is now at a mature stage that allows Coun...