FCC

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it’s extending the deadline from Aug. 27 to Sept. 27 to receive applications to fill Tribal vacancies on the Native Nations Communications Task Force (Task Force).

Michigan and Ontario, Canada, announced the expansion of their longstanding collaboration on transportation and cross-border activities to advance automotive and mobility technologies and help people and goods move safely and efficiently across the border by land, air, and water.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity have released a new set of recommendations to help governments of all levels evaluate the potential risks and harms associated with new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

State and local government IT spending in the United States is projected to total near $120 billion in 2021 – up about 10 percent on a year-over-year basis – and rising to $122 billion in 2022, according to figures published by Government Technology earlier this month.

Modernization

Creating a culture of innovation is essential to government success, according to both Federal and state government officials. During a recent GovLoop webinar, Carlos Rivero, chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Jason Barke, acting principal deputy associate director for employee services at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), explained that a culture of innovation has to begin with a leadership mindset change to both encourage innovation and reduce the fear of failure.

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