Government Technology News

12/19/2025

GT Fast5: Federal AI policy shifts meet a changing state tech landscape.

12/12/2025

GT Fast5: Governments will face rising AI costs, autonomous tools and smarter automation in 2026 — here’s what leaders need to prepare for next year.

12/05/2025

GT Fast5: A cyberattack knocks emergency alert systems offline for hundreds of communities. This week’s Fast5 dives into cyber budgets, AI oversight, IT leadership shakeups and more.

12/02/2025

People are less worried about AI taking humans’ jobs than they once were, but introducing bots to the public-sector workplace has brought new questions around integration, ethics and management.

People are less worried about AI taking humans’ jobs than they once were, but introducing bots to the public-sector workplace has brought new questions around integration, ethics and management.

11/21/2025

GT Fast5: Fifty-four cities are redefining what’s possible with AI-powered digital innovation in the 2025 Center for Digital Government survey.

11/18/2025

“Can we use AI to better understand our city? And on that, we think we’re squarely there. We think we’re in the space of understanding. And once we do the understanding, can we apply the analysis?”

Tech and transportation officials are working to bring together GIS, artificial intelligence and other tools, to develop a traffic management system that’s smarter and improves safety for all.

11/14/2025

GT Fast5: Nevada finally knows who was behind the cyberattack that disrupted state systems. Here’s what investigators uncovered — and what happens next.

11/07/2025

GT Fast5: GT’s Fall mag cover story shows how AI is transforming government work — automating tasks, speeding up services and helping public employees focus on citizens.

10/17/2025

GT Fast5: California tightens AI rules for online safety as Pennsylvania’s CIO and CTO step down — reshaping two major state tech landscapes.

10/10/2025

GT Fast5: Billions for broadband, but rural America’s still buffering. Mapping flaws and policy gaps could leave some towns in the digital dark.

10/03/2025

This week’s Fast5 covers the end of federal funding for a key cybersecurity watchdog that’s protected nearly 19,000 local governments, an emergency order to patch dangerous Cisco firewall flaws, T-Mobile’s new tech tools for first responders, the departure of South Bend’s chief innovation officer and how commuter rail is making a comeback after COVID. .