Plus, GCR rebrands, public officials talk COVID-19 tech at Salesforce conference, Israeli company offers to find coronavirus hot spots with sewage monitoring and more...
GovTech Biz

TOP NEWS

Secretive Company Palantir Preps to Enter the Stock Market The heavily criticized company hasn't said much about its contracts with agencies such as the Los Angeles Police Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But if it goes public, it will need to reveal more.

N.M., R.I. Officials Talk COVID-19 Tech at Salesforce Summit Private and public sector leaders from around the world extolled the virtues of technology in creating safe, adaptable environments in a digital government summit Thursday organized by Salesforce.

Israeli Company Uses Sewage to Find COVID-19 Hot Spots While the world waits for vaccines, Kando hopes that by collecting and analyzing sewage samples, it can help government isolate problem areas to more effectively and precisely contain COVID-19.

GCR Inc. and Subsidiaries PCC and MB3 Rebrand as Civix In the wake of three acquisitions in the past five years, two of which had remained separate subsidiaries, Civix will have separate divisions for government, grant management and transportation.

Google to Launch Government Cloud Service Within the Year Following in the footsteps of other major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, the tech giant Google is planning to launch a cloud service specifically for government sometime in the fall.

Hawaii Awards Facial, Thermal Scanning Contract for Airports Hawaii airports will award a $37.5 million contract to NEC Corp. and its partner Infrared Cameras Inc. to install technology meant to identify and locate travelers showing symptoms of COVID-19.

MARKET SPOTLIGHT

New Data: Police Spending Has Been Rising for Years Amid calls to reduce police funding, a recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that in 2017, police spending per capita recovered to its pre-recession peak after years of steady increases.

WATCHLIST

GovTech companies on our radar this week:

Thimble: A flexible small business insurance broker whose certificate management technology aims to help governments comply with liability requirements.

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BIZ NOTES

>Accela's 2020 conference is going virtual.

>Periscope Holdings wins statewide e-procurement contract in Arkansas.

>Nevada "doubles investment" in Aurigo's technology.

>Databricks debuts on Microsoft Azure Government.

WHAT WE'RE READING

New Footage Shows Chinese Officials Putting Uyghurs on Trains to Camps (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Very Detailed Map Showing Where People Are and Aren’t Wearing Masks (New York Times)

Data Made Apologizes for Working with Police, Promises to Stop (DataMade)

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