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CDT: Four Technology Modernization Fund Projects Move Forward

January 13, 2022 By Jessica Mulholland

In just two months, California’s Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has launched and officially selected four projects from its inaugural application period.

On January 12, 2022, the California Department of Technology (CDT) — which approved the TMF in summer 2021 to fund small efforts that can quickly provide high-value services and fund urgent needs identified by the state’s Stabilization Service — announced that projects from the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the California departments of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Food and Agriculture (CDFA), and Consumer Affairs (DCA) will move forward.

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