{"id":175514,"date":"2026-01-08T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/county-to-spend-272445-from-cybersecurity-grant-to-upgrade-network-equipment\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:05:08","slug":"county-to-spend-272445-from-cybersecurity-grant-to-upgrade-network-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/county-to-spend-272445-from-cybersecurity-grant-to-upgrade-network-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"County to spend $272,445 from cybersecurity grant to upgrade network equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citizenportal.ai\/articles\/7257869\/Grand-Forks-County\/North-Dakota\/County-to-spend-272445-from-cybersecurity-grant-to-upgrade-network-equipment\">County to spend $272,445 from cybersecurity grant to upgrade network equipment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citizenportal.ai\/articles\/7257869\/Grand-Forks-County\/North-Dakota\/County-to-spend-272445-from-cybersecurity-grant-to-upgrade-network-equipment\">https:\/\/citizenportal.ai\/articles\/7257869\/Grand-Forks-County\/North-Dakota\/County-to-spend-272445-from-cybersecurity-grant-to-upgrade-network-equipment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-08 03:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"citizenportal.ai\">citizenportal.ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. The Grand Forks County Commission unanimously approved awarding a contract to High Point Networks for $272,445 to upgrade network equipment across county buildings, using funds from a cybersecurity grant.The IT director told commissioners the approved grant total is $386,000, with roughly 80% federal funding, 4.55% state funding and a 15.45% county share already set aside in capital improvements. The RFP was posted on the county website and two vendors attended the mandatory walkthrough; one compliant proposal was submitted and one proposal was excluded for using an unapproved equipment brand.&#8221;We&#8217;re recommending moving forward with the project and awarding to High Point Networks for $272,445,&#8221; the IT director said, and commissioners voted to approve the recommendation.Project scheduling was described as tentative with an aggressive January through March 2026 timeline; the grant deadline cited in the meeting record was Nov. 30 (year not specified). County staff will execute contract signatures and proceed with procurement.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County to spend $272,445 from cybersecurity grant to upgrade network equipment https:\/\/citizenportal.ai\/articles\/7257869\/Grand-Forks-County\/North-Dakota\/County-to-spend-272445-from-cybersecurity-grant-to-upgrade-network-equipment Publish Date: 2026-01-08&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.pipeline.soar.com\/7257818-990046f3a996a8d17ce4c95f96092fac\/thumbnail_1425305.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-175514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175516,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175514\/revisions\/175516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}