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Traffic deaths are declining nationwide, but transportation leaders say sustained progress will depend on combining street design, data and automated enforcement to change driver behavior.

A student perspective on closing government’s tech talent gap offers three ways state and local agencies can recruit young engineers and other specialists to put their skills to work for their communities.

IT systems are major government investments with high stakes and long-term consequences. The planning that goes into their procurement deserves careful forethought and governance.

Rather than cutting technology budgets across the board, state and local leaders can use targeted IT investments to reduce costs, improve services and strengthen long-term resilience.

Anthropic’s release of its Mythos AI model should be viewed as as a defining moment in the evolution of digital risk. For state and local governments, the question is no longer whether AI will shape cybersecurity — it already has.

Ohio CIO Katrina Flory explains why continuously innovating policy, culture and communications is just as important as upgrading technology when improving the systems both state employees and residents rely on.

What happens when a state agency decides it’s done with the “wild west” of project requests, siloed service management and email-based workflows? The answer is enterprise service management.

Mission alignment, or matching technologies to real-world priorities, can support progress beyond experimentation. A three-pronged approach focused on current challenges, promising AI benefits and proven technology best practices can move agencies toward AI alignment.

Why AI and ML are fundamental to protecting government services and improving user experience.

Cities sometimes sign contracts for technology like digital twins after they've been presented a best-case-scenario pitch from software vendors. Here’s a guide for procurement officers who want to avoid common pitfalls.

Agentic AI poses both new risks and big opportunities. To mitigate the risks, columnist Ben Palacio argues we should look to the same controls already present in financial information systems.

The document outlining the Trump administration’s approach to AI signals less regulation and more innovation. To plan for it, state and local governments must understand what it includes — and what it omits.