The end of 2025 was another strong quarter for gov tech market investment, with a variety of deal types spanning many verticals. Market expert Jeff Cook runs through the deals and the numbers.
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The company provides maps and other AI-driven solutions to help local government agencies with transportation, transit, natural disaster response and traffic safety efforts. The new funding comes from a single investor. -
In Singapore’s IT department, innovation comes not only from in-house technical expertise, but through pushing those skills out to the rest of the enterprise and supporting innovation nationally.
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The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has introduced new features to make paying, booking and going online at BART stations more convenient. Five heavily traveled stations now offer free Wi-Fi.
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New research from Georgetown’s Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation reveals how states are navigating technology, governance and operations to improve access to public benefits like SNAP and Medicaid.
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From Pilot to Launch: What will it take to scale AI in government?
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As fears of an AI “bubble” persist, officials and gov tech suppliers are looking to move past pilots and deploy larger, more permanent projects that bring tangible benefits. But getting there is easier said than done. -
Artificial intelligence has been dominant for several years. But where has government taken it? More than a decade after the GT100's debut, companies doing business in the public sector are ready to prove their worth.
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The boom of early Internet in the mid-1990s upended government IT. The rise of artificial intelligence isn't exactly the same, but it isn't completely different. What can we learn from 30 years ago?
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School-zone speed cameras in Richmond, Va., which are only online while children arrive or leave from school, produced just over 100,000 violations in their first year of use.
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The town of Vernon recently became the latest of several local governments in Connecticut to put enforcement cameras on school buses, hoping to curb moving violations around the vehicles when students are present.
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As part of a statewide push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California launched a voucher program aimed at helping residents purchase e-bikes, but there have been problems.
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The education innovation organization ASU+GSV has called upon college and university presidents and chancellors across the U.S. to provide insights into issues facing higher education.
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A workshop for energy and data center developers, state agencies and community leaders to discuss affected industries, power providers and policy and regulatory agencies is planned for Sept. 18.
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In addition to classes focused on in-demand fields such as IT and mechatronics, the Dallas College RedBird Center also has a support network to offer students career coaching tailored to certification programs.
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Despite the fact that "fostering AI competency" was a stated priority for the National Endowment for the Arts under the Trump administration, many projects involving AI are losing their grant funding anyway.
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Mayor Monroe Nichols says that while data centers do have a place in Tulsa’s economic development future, he does not see them as a critical piece of the city’s strategy.
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The recent launch of the centralized Workday Strategic Sourcing tool aims to unify and smooth the city-county’s sourcing activities, for a swifter, more transparent process. It unifies requests once managed separately.
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Educators from more than 20 school districts across 11 states have joined the Otus AI Advisory Board to help the company, which offers software to track student progress, align its new AI features with teachers' needs.
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