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New York City Brings Free Tech Training to Public Housing Residents
New York City’s Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) is launching a new digital learning hub that will connect 330,000 New Yorkers living in public housing with free access to technology-related skills training. 
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  1. New York Puts $40M Into Advanced Nuclear Workforce Development
    New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is committing $40 million in funding over the next four years to train and retrain workers for advanced nuclear energy jobs in upstate New York to meet increasing energy demands. 
  2. Trump Signs Order to Preempt State AI Laws and Push Single Federal Framework
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to undermine state laws on artificial intelligence (AI), calling instead for a “minimally burdensome” single framework to regulate the AI industry.
  3. Government, Industry, Academia Collaboration Fuels AI Progress
    From artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital assistants that guide citizens through state portals to digital twins that model transportation infrastructure, state and local governments are finding practical pathways to put AI to work.
  1. Indiana DOE Partnership Targets STEM, Digital Learning Tools
    The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) announced a new public-private partnership that will provide $75 million advance the state’s education priorities, including bolstering science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and digital learning tools.
  2. States, Schools Harness Data and Workforce Programs to Combat Fraud, Cyber Threats, and Service Outages
    Public sector and higher education leaders are actively developing innovative data analytics and cybersecurity workforce models to combat escalating fraud and cyber threats.
  3. Dartmouth Rolls Out AI Program With Anthropic, AWS
    Dartmouth College has rolled out a campuswide artificial intelligence (AI) initiative through a new partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving students, faculty, and staff access to Anthropic’s Claude for Education model and AWS’s Amazon Bedrock platform.
  4. Education, Enterprise Compute, and Hands-On Sprints Turn Into Mission Impact
    The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is building an artificial intelligence (AI)-ready force the way a teaching hospital trains clinicians: rigorous classroom learning, side-by-side practice on world-class technology, and real problems. Through its Artificial Intelligence Task Force (AITF), Digital Trident AI Challenge, and academic and leadership programs, NPS pairs tiered AI education with secure, scalable compute and operator-in-the-loop experimentation so students and faculty can turn promising ideas into useful capabilities that commands can adopt.
  1. ISC2 Report: Cyber Experts Say They Need Skills More Than Headcount
    As global cybersecurity hiring begins to stabilize after years of layoffs and frozen budgets, skills gaps loom large as one of the greatest challenges facing the cybersecurity workforce, the new annual ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found.
  2. New Jersey Launches Civilian Cyber Corps
    A new cybersecurity initiative dubbed the New Jersey Civilian Cyber Resilience Corps (Cyber Corps) aims to mobilize specialized expertise in cybersecurity response and resilience across the state of New Jersey.  
  3. Pennsylvania National Guard Expands Drone Use 
    The Pennsylvania National Guard is expanding training and testing of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – commonly referred to as drones – as they take on a growing role in modern warfare.  
  4. Texas A&M University System Names Vince Kellen CIO
    The Texas A&M University System named Vince Kellen as its next chief information officer (CIO) with his appointment effective Dec. 1, the university said in a press release.
  5. FTC Hits Illuminate for Student Data Breach, Discusses Settlement Terms
    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Dec.1 that a majority of its commissioners approved the agency taking legal action against edtech services provider Illuminate following a breach, “which allowed hackers to access the personal data of more than 10 million students.”
  6. Army, Northeastern University Team Up on 3D-Printed Material for Electronics
    A coalition of researchers from the U.S. Army and Northeastern University have developed a 3D-printable material designed to keep advanced military electronics from overheating – a growing concern across communication, radar, drone and electric vehicle systems.
  7. Senators Introduce Bill to Reauthorize Cybersecurity Grant Program
    Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced a bipartisan bill today that would reauthorize the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP), a key program that helps state, local, and tribal governments prevent cyberattacks.
  8. NYC Launches Emergency Communications Vehicle
    New York City Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Matthew Fraser announced on Nov. 25 the launch of an emergency communications vehicle designed to ensure uninterrupted connectivity to the city’s first responder agencies during major events and disaster situations.
  9. Georgia to Offer Free AI Training for All State Employees
    Georgia state employees will receive free artificial intelligence (AI) training under a new partnership with InnovateUS that will teach public sector workers how to use the technology responsibly.  
  10. New Bill Would Fund AI Training in Medical Schools
    A grant program would annually make $1 million available for medical schools that build artificial intelligence (AI) literacy programs under legislation introduced Wednesday by House Democrats.