By: Jim Weaver, National Strategy Advisor at Everpure For state and local governments, cyber incidents rarely stay confined to IT departments. They quickly cascade into disruptions to public services that residents depend on every day. When courts cannot process cases, emergency lines go down, utility billing systems go offline, or benefits platforms stall, the consequences […]

Salamanca City Central School District on the Seneca Nation Reservation in New York will pilot an artificial intelligence (AI) teacher’s assistant and humanoid robot in its high school AI and robotics courses, Realbotix Corp. announced June 24.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an interim final rule codifying how state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement and correctional agencies can use counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) authorities under the SAFER SKIES Act.

Former U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) IT official Shannon Casucci joined the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (NCDIT) as chief procurement transformation officer, NCDIT announced on June 24.

High school teachers across the country will build artificial intelligence (AI) skills, earn industry-aligned credentials, and get support for bringing AI lessons into their classrooms through free training programs from the National Applied AI Consortium (NAAIC).

While phishing volumes fell globally for a second consecutive year, government organizations saw attacks jump from 92 million to 138 million as threat actors shifted toward high-value targets.

The Stanford Digital Economy Lab launched the AI Economic Indicators on June 10, a free platform designed to track how artificial intelligence is affecting work, productivity, and value creation across the economy, according to a press release.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced on June 9 that the state will migrate executive branch data from outdated physical servers and multiple data centers to a cloud environment through Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cognizant Government Solutions will take over day-to-day IT operations.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill launched a two-year statewide study on June 4 to examine how North Carolina communities are experiencing generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how local libraries can support AI literacy.

The bill would restore federal funding for MS-ISAC. Sen. Warner warned that funding cuts left small and rural communities with less access to critical cyber defenses.