New AI projects are shaving off hours of work and enticing more people to work for government, said the AI center's director.

VR simulations dramatically improved students' self-reported confidence with their career options after high school.

Students attending local colleges, universities and trade schools are invited to join a local competition to solve real-world challenges flagged by the city.

The new center will help state agencies incorporate AI into their long-term plans, following the success of a similar strategy to encourage cloud adoption.

Technologies that can help agencies automate processes were a huge help this year, but there are still some pockets of reluctance in government, several state CIOs said.

"We have a heightened awareness of how important security is," Colorado CISO Deborah Blyth said during an online event about post-pandemic IT.

More than 30 non-IT employees in Garland, a Dallas suburb of about 240,000, taught themselves how to design digital workflows making government more efficient.

A new law requires nearly all state and local employees across the Lone Star State to undergo annual cybersecurity education.

A new state-funded program seeks to shrink the gap in the IT security workforce by offering digital forensics and cybersecurity training.

State and local government agencies are turning to cloud to streamline and strengthen their organizations' cybersecurity efforts.