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How Public Safety Is Driving the Deployment of Mission-Critical Operations Centers

State Tech Magazine

And 93 percent said coordination among agencies is critical when responding to public safety crises and emergency situations. In a Verizon survey, 55 percent of first responders said the use of data for situational awareness has been one of the strongest areas of technological improvement in public safety over the past 20 years.

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Advancements in police technology have fundamentally changed how departments operate

American City & Country

How would police communicate and coordinate without computers? Police departments are increasingly leveraging AI to enhance public safety and operational efficiency. Consider the technology that makes effective policing possible. Where would we be without the ability to conduct DNA testing—or even fingerprint suspects?

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Keys to Countering Cyberattacks Against State and Local Agencies

State Tech Magazine

That means everything from ensuring operational technology (OT) is readily upgradeable and interoperable to coordinating information sharing across the public and private sectors. Critical infrastructure has become a major target for cyberattackers.

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Strengthening public safety collaboration with AWS Wickr and the Android Team Awareness Kit

AWS Public Sector Blog

First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts. Combined capabilities ATAK is a geospatial infrastructure and situational awareness application that provides a real time common operating picture of people and assets within a map-based view.

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Leveraging AI to Speed Incident Detection and Response

GovLoop

And by adding AI to their IT operations (AIOps), they can supercharge their ability to apply intelligent incident detection and response in order to speed remediation and keep the mission on track, said Nathan Stacey, Senior Manager with Elastic. A unified platform can support the effort, driving cost savings and tool consolidation.

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Governments Find Strength in Numbers

GovLoop

CISA Coordinates a National Effort The federal government has collaborated with state governments on cybersecurity over the years. But the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2021 institutionalized those efforts by creating a network of state coordinators under CISA’s purview. In February 2022, New York Gov.

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AWS announces AWS Modular Data Center for U.S. Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability

AWS Public Sector Blog

Department of Defense (DoD) relies on modern military applications that are data-heavy and depend on low latency to enable critical communications and coordination in the field. Further, AWS MDC comes with a management system for customers to proactively monitor and simply operate the MDC’s subsystems. “As