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Reimagining AAS Technical Education for an AI-Integrated Workforce
Following the August 25 National IT Innovation Center BILT meeting discussion on AI literacy knowledge and skills, one of the…
Cybersecurity’s AI Paradox: Our Deadliest Adversary or Our Last Ally?
Adapted from a talk by Dr. Michael Greer, Associate Professor at Columbus State Community College, delivered at the 2026 Central…
NITIC Connects and Collaborates at HI-TEC 2026
The NITIC team had a great week at the 2026 High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HI-TEC) in Austin, Texas. The…
IT Industry News
Energy Department Announces New Genesis Mission Awards to Advance Super Intelligence for Science
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced 12 Phase II Genesis Mission project awards totaling $159 million. Building on…
Spending on U.S. data center buildings hits record $85 billion annual pace, up 73% in a year — and Census doesn’t count the servers and racks inside
Data center construction now sits at over nine times its Jan. 2021 level of $9.26 billion. Data center construction has…
CISA scraps 6 free cybersecurity assessments for critical infrastructure operators
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is scaling back the free assessments it offers to critical infrastructure organizations, a…