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The forward-thinking town of Troup, Texas, attracted visitors, boosted businesses and revitalized its downtown with Verizon Fixed Wireless Access.
Move from productivity to performance with agentic AI
I’m delighted to share that BMC has been recognized as a strong performer in the new report, The Forrester Wave™: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025, receiving the highest scores possible in the vision, roadmap, and agentic AI, advisor, and assistant criteria. For us, receiving the highest score possible in the vision criterion demonstrates our consistent leadership in addressing IT challenges with agentic AI.
BELLEVUE, WA – Launch Consulting, part of The Planet Group and a leading AI-first digital transformation consultancy, is proud to announce it has earned its fourth Microsoft Solution Partner designation – Infrastructure (Azure) – further solidifying its position as a trusted partner for public sector organizations navigating the complexities of secure and scalable cloud modernization.
Find out why public-sector organizations from police and fire departments to health-care agencies are choosing this secure, smart choice for reliable mobile communication — and new productivity.
The City of Plano, Texas partnered with OpenGov to meet the inventory requirements of the EPA’s revised Lead and Copper Rule (LCRR) and continues to provide safe drinking water for the community. Here’s how they did it.
Verizon’s whitepaper, The New Realities Driving Government Network Transformation, explores how evolving technology demands are pushing state and local governments to rethink their digital infrastructure. It emphasizes that true modernization requires not just adopting new tools, but transforming the underlying networks that support critical services. From boosting cybersecurity and public safety to improving workforce efficiency and digital access, the paper outlines how network innovation can drive meaningful change across government operations. Verizon also highlights the importance of budget optimization and long-term sustainability in navigating this shift.
Government leaders increasingly indicate that what were previously viewed as Black Swan events are now becoming more frequent — and more destabilizing — shocks.
Attackers know when government agency resources are scarce, they have an advantage. In our webinar, learn how automation helps strengthen incident response and disaster recovery. Register Today
Providing resilient services with limited budgets and staff is not easy – but the right AIOps and Observability solution can help you resolve and prevent issues and maximize resources. The BMC Helix agentic AI platform and new expanded capabilities look at your past and current data to help you optimize your future.
Learn how to see, analyze and mitigate risks for APIs in production, with insights on how Akamai can help with runtime security for APIs.
Privileged Access Management (PAM) might sound like a buzzword, but it’s far more than that. Managing privileged access to sensitive data is critical for maintaining a cybersecurity defense that is robust enough to stand up against modern-day threats—especially for state, local, and educational (SLED) organizations.
Cyberattacks on Water and Electric Utilities Threaten Public Safety, Economic Stability
The European Space Agency expands its space mission operation’s capacity with Canonical’s infrastructure solutions and managed IT services
No question, the pandemic has stress-tested every business continuity plan ever created — especially security strategies. Hackers are finding more opportunities to attack networks while businesses are consumed with changing their operating models and supporting a distributed workforce.
A New Era of Trust, Speed, and Accuracy for Government Programs
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What to Know:
- Midland Independent School District is adding ZeroEyes to its campuses, deploying the AI-based gun detection video analytics platform on top of existing security cameras.
- The move follows other local adopters, including Midland Christian School, which announced a ZeroEyes installation in September 2025, and Stonegate Fellowship, which added the system in January as part of its $40 million expansion.
- Midland ISD serves about 29,000 students and employs 3,200 staff across 40 campuses and is planning to open two new high schools in August 2028.
What to Know:
- The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved a new School of Computing at the University of Texas at Austin that is slated to open in fall 2026.
- The school will sit in the College of Natural Sciences and will unite programs spanning computer science, information, and statistics and data sciences under a single structure.
- UT Austin said it plans to hire 50 faculty members as part of the launch, aiming to expand teaching capacity and support interdisciplinary research tied to computing and artificial intelligence.
What to Know:
- The Texas Space Commission conditionally approved a $14.2 million award for Rice University to stand up a Center for Space Technologies within the Rice Space Institute.
- The Rice award completes the commission’s first $150 million round of awards, bringing the total to 24 projects.
- The commission said the Rice center is expected to focus on research and development, technology transfer, statewide partnerships, workforce training and space-focused education, with work tied to lunar exploration priorities.
