The federal agency will help Wisconsin conduct research and solicit a vendor to build a modern unemployment system.

A $2 million federal grant will be used to improve access to computer science education in Milwaukee Public Schools.

Cybersecurity specialists and data scientists may be in high demand, but Wisconsin Chief Information Officer David Cagigal said Monday that he knows of a technology people can study that will make them attractive to employers and eligible for lucrative positions in the workforce: mainframes. Though at least one recent survey showed that some states are attempting to distance themselves from the technology, mainframes aren’t going anywhere, Cagigal said at the…