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Collaboration to protect critical government infrastructure reboots, eyes national expansion

StateScoop: A consortium of government, private-sector and university interests have come together to protect the security of the nation's critical public infrastructure, organizers announced Friday.

Starting in Washington state, the project — called the Public Infrastructure Security Collaboration and Exchange System, or PISCES — is a reboot of a Seattle-area project that lost support in 2013, and has been brought back to life, expanded to include not only cross-sector monitoring of local government's most essential infrastructure — 911 systems, public safety communications, water treatment facilities, and so on — but also to build a workforce development and research ecosystem.

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