Autonomous systems with excessive permissions can pursue poorly defined objectives in ways leaders never intended.

Agencies unify constituent interactions, automate workflows and expand capacity through a platform enhanced by artificial ...

Mississippi State Department of Health IT Security Officer Jarad Stout uses AI-powered automation and centralized security ...

Shorter grant windows reward agencies that keep modernization projects scoped, documented and budgeted before opportunities ...

Centralized analytics, video feeds and integrated platforms enhance situational awareness for public safety agencies.

State and local governments continue to strengthen their cybersecurity programs as they modernize infrastructure, defend critical services and adopt artificial intelligence. Yet even after years of ...

State governments manage enormous volumes of sensitive information every day, from tax records and health data to the systems that keep essential public services running. When this information is ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can power chatbots and ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Alan R. Shark is an associate professor at the Schar School for Policy and Government, George Mason University, where he also serves as a faculty member at the Center for Human AI Innovation in ...

Michael G. Leahy is the founder of the Fiduciary Commons framework and a former Maryland Secretary of Information Technology (2017-2023). The numbers are hard to argue with: The 2026 NASCIO-Deloitte ...