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In September, even before the October wildfires began to ravage parts of northern and southern California, governor Gavin Newsom announced two contracts totaling nearly $2 million for developing technology to facilitate wildfire detection and emergency decision-making.
The contracts are part of the Wildfire Innovation Sprint, the result of an executive order signed in January by Newsom on his first day of office. The order was designed to jump-start adoption of technological innovations by state agencies.
“The whole idea behind this process was to….
