The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has announced on Sept. 5 a “voluntary pledge” for K-12 education technology software developers and manufacturers to commit to creating products with a greater emphasis on cybersecurity built in.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that seven teams from nine counties will participate in the second cohort of the BroadbandOhio Community Accelerator program.

Government tech execs at the Federal and state level offered advice and tips on how they are approaching the pressing need to recruit more data scientists into their organizations as reliance on data-centric technologies like artificial intelligence continues to grow.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed new legislation to create the Illinois Graduate and Retain Our Workforce (iGROW) Tech Act, which will establish a new program that allows students majoring in technology fields to receive tuition grants.

Ahead of the 2023 and 2024 election cycle, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) earlier this month hosted the nation’s largest annual election security exercise in coordination with the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors. 

Peter Romness is passionate about cybersecurity. He has been working with government customers for nearly 35 years and now, as cybersecurity principal in the CISO Advisor’s Office at Cisco, he focuses on protecting government networks from cyber threats. MeriTalk recently sat down with Romness to discuss how state and local governments and higher educational institutions are investing and gaining knowledge to guard against cyberattacks.

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) has confirmed that students’ personal information may have been compromised during a ransomware attack  earlier this year.

Following a summer of record-breaking air quality concerns nationwide, the city of Boston has launched a new air quality widget.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has implemented a final rule that establishes repayment standards for the agency’s CyberCorps Scholarship-for-Service recipients who fail to fulfill the program’s requirements.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that more than 20 million households have enrolled in the agency’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) – the nation’s largest broadband affordability program.