State leadership has been working on key IT initiatives in 2025, from a digital ID project to a customer experience initiative to bolstering their cybersecurity approach. That work is expected to advance in 2026.
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Next year will bring a complex mix of evolution, correction and convergence when it comes to AI. It will become more powerful, more personal and more ubiquitous — and also more expensive, more autonomous and more disruptive. -
The Florida-based supplier of “intelligent streetlighting” says its latest tools offer deeper insights into traffic patterns and more safety protections. The company recently joined a law enforcement network.
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The Indiana Secretary of State’s Office has launched a modernized Notary Education Learning Management System, to improve training and compliance for all notaries. It could serve as a model for other updates.
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Martha Norrick left her job earlier this year and has since joined the incoming mayor’s transition team on technology. She was an advocate of open data and data literacy.
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People are less worried about AI taking humans’ jobs than they once were, but introducing bots to the public-sector workplace has brought new questions around integration, ethics and management. -
As governments at all levels continue to embrace new developments in artificial intelligence, cities are using automation for everything from reducing first responder paperwork to streamlined permitting.
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Agencies report that critical IT positions remain hard to fill, but finding the right people takes more than job postings. States are expanding intern and apprentice programs to train and retain talent.
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A bill submitted by state Rep. Katie Stuart would amend the state vehicle code to limit speeds on bike paths and trails. Currently, the closest equivalent is a 15 mile per hour speed limit in alleys.
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The Teradyne plant in Wixom is expected to house manufacturing for Universal Robots’ collaborative robots. It will serve as the company’s new U.S. Operations Hub, with support from a $2.7 million grant.
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Drones can enhance emergency response, but they’re only one part of the public safety toolkit, ideally making the jobs of the officers and first responders safer and more efficient.
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QR codes must be eliminated from Georgia’s ballots by July 2026, but less than a year away from midterms, the state is still trying to figure out how to comply.
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Many professors cite the rising impact of AI and the speech of some prominent politicians as reasons to inoculate students against propaganda and falsehoods being mass produced and spread on social media.
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With $40 million from a private foundation and $35 million in state funding, a new initiative in Indiana will support a statewide analysis of STEM competency and new digital resources, among other things.
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The nonprofit STEM Next Opportunity Fund is working with Qualcomm Incorporated to pilot after-school and summer programming in AI literacy at schools in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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The autonomous taxi purveyor plans to add service in Orlando and other central Florida municipalities next year. Its rise has prompted questions about safety and hopes congestion could decline.
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The city’s police chief reviewed its contract with the vendor providing the cameras and will brief the Common Council, as officials contemplate placing more devices. The city, not the vendor, owns the data collected.
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A new computer science wing at a community college in Michigan strengthens its IT programs and capacity to train students in computer numeric control, programmable logic controllers, data science and mechatronics.
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