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Aurora IT leaders present 2025 budget, emphasize cybersecurity and smart-city projects
Summary
City of Aurora Chief Information Officer Mike Piguetz outlined the Information Technology Department—udget for 2025, highlighting investments in public-safety radio upgrades, cybersecurity, digital services and programmatic staffing increases tied to a continuing smart-city agenda.
Mike Piguetz, the city—hief Information Officer, presented the Information Technology Department—udget request for 2025 to the Aurora Special Finance Committee on Oct. 25.
Piguetz framed the budget around a long-term digital plan that originated in 2017 and has evolved into a broader igital strategy tied to public safety, revenue systems and internal services. "Technology is an underpinning foundation of everything we do at the city of Aurora. It drives our operation. It drives our revenue. It drives services," Piguetz said.
The department requested funding for multiple operational and capital priorities in 2025. Key items described in the presentation included:
- Public-safety communications: continued work with L3 Harris on a P25 public-safety radio upgrade intended to improve fire, police and emergency-management communications.
- Cybersecurity and monitoring: ongoing maintenance of a security operations center and Data Defenders capability that the CIO said monitors critical infrastructure 24/7.
- Infrastructure and service desk…
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