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The money is a bet that more airports and cities will use the company’s computer vision technology to help manage increasingly busy curbside spaces. Automotus traces its roots to two college buddies in Los Angeles. -
Streamline’s products include tools that expand digital access for people with disabilities. The new year will bring a new federal accessibility rule for web and mobile communication affecting state and local government.
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The state and private-sector backers will offer $20 million to help companies develop artificial intelligence tools. The move is the latest sign of New Jersey’s desire to become a national AI leader.
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Fraud can cost government programs such as unemployment insurance millions. Two companies that help the public sector identify it, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Accuity, are merging their products and data together.
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Mark43, which also offers evidence management and other solutions for the public safety market, is releasing the API to its customers and a big network of vendor partners to ease communication between applications.
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The nationwide communications network for public safety has come a long way since it started operating in 2018. New numbers from AT&T, the company hired to build out the network, illustrate how it continues to grow.
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The startup has traditionally served the process of re-integrating the incarcerated into society. Now it’s jumping into health care with an initiative in Arizona, and hoping to sell to state Medicaid agencies.
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From online public meetings to chatbots, the COVID-19 pandemic made tech-enabled government communication a must-have. How can we keep the momentum going in a post-COVID world?
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The accounting, payroll and HR tech company sees its new offering as the future version of its current products. Here's Springbrook's plan for building up the solution and giving customers an easier path to the cloud.
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The body-worn camera maker and the digital evidence management company are integrating their two platforms together, allowing law enforcement and other customers to work with evidence in one place.
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The acquisition, probably the biggest gov tech deal ever, would bring together a giant of local government software with a giant of state software. Here's how the deal came together, and what it might mean for gov tech.
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The $2.3 billion deal will almost certainly be the largest ever recorded in the gov tech space.
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The company, which connects emergency responders with information about the people they're responding to, has pulled in one of the biggest gov tech investments in recent years — led by a familiar venture capital firm.
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Urban SDK occupies the relatively competitive space of transportation and transit data analytics. The startup, which has an eye toward expanding beyond the public sector, has pulled in $1.7 million from investors.
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The company has integrated an AI-powered chatbot from a third-party company in order to meet demand from its government customers, who have found themselves facing more questions from constituents during the pandemic.
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GovOS will start with six products aimed at helping local governments set up online alternatives to paper-based processes and services, allowing Kofile to maintain its focus on digitizing public records.
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The new CortexAI for Government platform includes models, data sets, tools and applications that serve a wide range of purposes from interpreting speech to helping identify redundant regulations.
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Amazon Web Services is launching a new “virtual accelerator” to give resources to government technology startups that are trying to create innovative solutions on AWS for state and local governments nationwide.
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The startup UrbanLeap, now about four years old, has made a name for itself helping local governments try new things. Now it's launching a new solution to help the public sector make purchases as well.
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Repackaging and expanding upon prior tools for helping governments set up their own vaccine management systems, Salesforce has new cloud software for coordinating vaccines, citizens and employees.
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The company is following in the footsteps of Amazon Web Services, which went on a similar hiring spree last year. Microsoft has picked up four former state CIOs and one city CIO to fill various roles.
