"Bleutech Park," backed in part by Cisco, claims it will include robotic security services, buildings made from "self-healing concrete" and an augmented-reality mode.

New legislation is hoped to encourage innovative uses of the record-keeping technology by the public and inside government itself.

Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Nevada and Virginia will spend the next six months studying election security to come up with plans ahead of the 2020 election.

The bill would allow police officers to use a device to determine whether a driver was using a mobile phone at the time of a collision.

Jeffrey Berns bought 67,000 acres of land to build an experimental city in which every facet of life incorporates distributed ledger technology.

Commentary: Brian Sandoval, governor of Nevada and 2017-18 chair of the National Governors Association, urges governors to keep pace with rapidly changing energy and transportation technologies.

Leaders from Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota and Virginia will head to Chicago in October to compare notes on statewide connected technology programs.

Dietrich, who comes from the private sector, will also serve as the state's deputy director of administration.

The state's lead technologist is moving on after nearly three years of work on cybersecurity, system modernization and promoting collaboration across agencies.