As state governments expand their use of cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, they ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Residents can get a lot done in a government office. They can go ...

In Colorado, state and local agencies have used digital twin technology to simulate how wildfires could spread based on terrain, weather and vegetation. Officials can model scenarios in advance and ...

The city built its public safety data operation from scratch to target violence prevention efforts and find gaps in programs. Baltimore recorded 133 homicides in 2025, down 31% from 194 a year earlier ...

The City of Raleigh, N.C., tested an artificial intelligence–powered customer service assistant and ultimately decided not to keep it. But city officials say that doesn’t mean the experiment was a ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. Like many law enforcement organizations, the Norfolk (Va.) ...

During my time as CIO for the state of North Carolina, I sat through many budget discussions. Some took place during routine annual planning, while others followed a cybersecurity event, a new ...

At the Tennessee Department of Human Services, modernization started with a simple realization: Residents seeking help from the state often faced a maze of disconnected systems, phone numbers and ...

Eric Marchewitz is a field solution architect with a 23-year career in cybersecurity solutions, working for such companies as PGP Security, McAfee, Cisco and Check Point. State and local governments ...

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 ...