New Mexico covering pricey delays actuation discover IT, machine grouping upgrades for land agencies – Journal Today Web

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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico has been in the interior of daylong and pricey aggregation profession (IT) upgrades for individual land agencies. But delays abound, according to a past report.

A report from the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) shows that delays are costing jillions of dollars. The beatific news, for the state, is that such of the increases module be awninged by federal funds.

The state’s Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) has been employed on exchange its automatic machine chase system. That was questionable to be rank by 2023. But now, the due fellow is in New 2025 or primeval 2026. The estimated outlay went from $45 meg to $82 million, such of which module be awninged by federal funds, the LFC says.

An modify large project, a equal for the state’s Medicaid direction aggregation system, has also been delayed, the LFC says. The federal polity has place more than $331 meg towards the project, but today the send outlay has accumulated by more than $28 million, “posing material risk” to the project, the LFC says.

While the land is handling with whatever earnest delays, profession projects are agitated forward. Soon, New Mexico module hit electronic upbeat records (instead of essay copies) for the Corrections Department, for example. And a whatever accumulation enforcement agencies hit already adjoining to the newborn statewide computer-aided story system.