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INSIDE
FEATURES
28 What drones can do for you
As high-flying cameras and sensors proliferate, government agencies at all levels are getting in on the act
BY MATT LEONARD
34 Digging out from under records requests Facing an increase in the number and volume of requests for
public records, agencies must act quickly to modernize and streamline their processes
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
38 How state troopers are predicting crashes Highway patrols are tapping into big data to predict where serious accidents are likely to occur so they can try to prevent them
BY JENNI BERGAL
CASE STUDY
42 Ohio town preps gigabit broadband network BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
WHAT’S NEXT
44 Quantum leaps for new computing approach BY GEORGE LEOPOLD
TACTICS
46 What to do after a cyberattack BY KAREN EPPER HOFFMAN
BRIEFING
6 City enlists Instagram in blight cleanup
7 States resist DHS designation, and NIST seeks quantum-resistant encryption
8 Resilience is essential for smart-city sensors. Plus, a Nuix report offers cybersecurity insights from hackers.
COMMENTARY
25 CYBEREYE Governments jump on the blockchain bandwagon
26 EMERGING TECH Putting HoloLens
to work inspecting infrastructure
27 INDUSTRYINSIGHT
7 ways to filter out false cybersecurity alerts
WISH LIST
50 Tech that we hope hits the public sector
Innovation in Government:
Capitalizing on the Cloud
Government agencies continue to modernize their IT infrastructure to reduce costs and improve security and IT services, and cloud computing is a critical component of those efforts.
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