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Baltimore County OIT requests capital funding for cybersecurity, broadband expansion and legacy system replacements
Summary
Chris Martin presented the Office of Information Technology’s FY26 capital priorities, highlighting cybersecurity resilience, the BCON fiber and broadband grants, digital equity work that distributed thousands of Chromebooks, replacement of aging systems (including the LARA permit system), and an emphasis on reducing technical debt.
Chris Martin, director of the Baltimore County Office of Information Technology, told the Planning Board subcommittee that OIT’s FY26 capital request focuses on cybersecurity, broadband expansion, digital equity and replacing aging core systems.
“OIT is a centralized IT department for the county government. We support all the departments that fall underneath the government umbrella,” Martin said, listing public safety, public works, budget and finance and other customers. He emphasized cyber‑resilience: “The future of wars will be fought in the cybersecurity space.”
Martin said OIT supports roughly 12,000 endpoint devices and handles about 50,000 help tickets annually; the office typically has about 55 active projects in its portfolio. The presentation described a multi‑pronged capital program that includes: an expanded…
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