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Data & Analytics
Metadata catalog refreshes one state’s water use insights
A metadata catalog is helping Arizona water resource managers quickly find and analyze the data needed by water users, planners and decision-makers.
Cloud & Infrastructure
County looks to blockchain for records management
Riverside County, California, wants to convert paper-centric services to trusted, secure and private electronic operations with an interagency blockchain platform that would be open to other counties.
Cybersecurity
State auditor seeks cyber readiness evaluation for agencies with DOD contracts
The Colorado Office of the State Auditor wants to be sure that agencies that receive funding from the Defense Department can meet DOD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements.
Emerging Tech
Housing authority looks to AI for voucher processing
Columbus wants to use an artificial intelligence-based solution to off-load routine tasks from staff and accelerate Housing Choice Voucher processing.
Public Safety
With updated data profiles, opioid detectors ID latest drugs
Thanks to a federal partnership, the portable detectors will get upgraded drug profiles, and their manufacturers will provide those new drug reference libraries to public safety agencies that already possess a detection device.
Emerging Tech
NSF jumpstarts regional innovation with $20M awards
The National Science Foundation will fund research in six states to advance energy-water systems, biomanufacturing, health care, wildfire management and artificial intelligence.
Emerging Tech
Conversational query: Kinetica builds ChatGPT front end to SQL database
A ChatGPT-based interface converts natural language questions into structured query language, allowing users to easily explore large, complex datasets.
Emerging Tech
Two states get waivers for connected-vehicle tech
Intelligent transportation projects in Virginia and Utah can use cellular vehicle-to-infrastructure technology ahead of the FCC’s final adoption of C-V2X rules.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Can Fortran survive another 15 years?
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory evaluated the risks of relying on the 65-year-old code for nuclear security.
Cloud & Infrastructure
NASCIO’s game plan for enterprise portfolio management
The association’s playbook will help CIOs assess their current tech portfolio and determine how well the IT aligns with and supports financial, business and government values and goals.
Data & Analytics
Analysis paralysis: When too much data reduces decision-making
The growing volume of data, expanding number of sources and its increasing complexity is undermining leaders’ ability to confidently use it to make decisions, a new report finds.
Emerging Tech
ChatGPT’s other risk: Oversharing confidential data
As many as 6.5% of employees have pasted their organization’s data into ChatGPT, and 3.1% have copied and pasted sensitive data to the program, recent research showed.
Public Safety
Wanted: 3D mapping drones for indoor search and rescue
NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division is looking for an affordable solution that will give public safety drone operators accurate indoor positioning and high-quality 3D digital mapping in real time.
Public Safety
NYPD pilots GPS darts, autonomous patroller and reintroduces robot dog
An autonomous security robot, GPS-enabled projectiles that attach to fleeing vehicles and the agile DigiDog are helping transform public safety in New York City.
Emerging Tech
Texas may dial back bitcoin mining incentives
To get a better handle on grid management, a Republican-sponsored bill proposes limiting cryptocurrency miners’ participation in demand response programs and barring virtual currency mining from tax abatements.
Data & Analytics
Sewage surveillance spots respiratory viruses
Researchers identified RNA common to a number of respiratory viruses in local wastewater and found it lined up with clinical data on relative infection rates.
Emerging Tech
Lessons from the metaverse
Even if early supporters are backing away from the immersive platform, states should keep thinking about new ways to provide services.
Data & Analytics
How data insights can solve geographic inequity, build regional economies
The Commerce Department’s Regional Economic Research Initiative will provide accessible data tools, visualizations and expert services help to federal, state, local and tribal decision-makers better understand what kind of projects will promote growth.
Cybersecurity
State mandates K-12 cyber education
North Dakota is the first state in the nation to require cybersecurity education be integrated into K-12 classrooms.
Cybersecurity