Closing the AI gap: Next-generation knowledge access for government

Government agencies worldwide are under pressure to do more with less. Growing regulatory requirements, tightening budgets, and rising public expectations are increasing the need for more efficient, resilient services. At the same time, agencies are expanding their use of AI to support operational and mission outcomes.

But moving from pilot to production remains difficult. According to IDC, 72% of 685 US public sector entities said scaling AI was very or somewhat difficult. Reliable AI depends on reliable access to quality data, yet skills gaps, security and compliance risks, and siloed systems can make that data difficult to access and govern.

Sponsored by Elastic and AWS, this IDC Spotlight report examines how next-generation federated knowledge search can improve data readiness by making authoritative context discoverable, governed, and reusable.

Download the report to learn:

• What is accelerating government adoption of AI
• Why moving AI from pilot to production remains difficult
• How agentic AI changes government knowledge-access requirements
• How federated search can support data residency, governance, auditability, and human oversight

Additional resources

• Infographic: How public sector organizations are using Elasticsearch
• Blog: Public sector AI use case
• Article: GenAI and semantic search in the public sector
• Report: Accelerate your mission with Elastic as a global data mesh