CH2M will serve as a design-build contractor for the $1.2 billion Northeast Water Purification Plant Expansion project of Houston, Texas, and the $85 million Cogeneration Facility Project of San Jose, California. The company said Wednesday its joint venture with CDM Smith — called Houston Waterworks Team — will work to design, construct and operate a water facility that could help Houston save $9 million in operations and maintenance costs. […] More

Dan Lukasik, sector vice president for intelligent transportation systems and tolling at Parsons, has been appointed as chair of the board of directors for research and development organization ITS California. Parsons said Thursday Lukasik previously served as the not-for-profit, private-public organization’s vice chair of the board of directors for three years. “As an accomplished ITS expert, I’m confident that […] More

ViON Corp. has received a three-year contract from the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance to provide information technology platforms and support services to nonprofit and public sector agencies across the U.S. The contract took effect in October 2015 and covers more than 15,700 cloud and big data offerings, warranties and professional services from ViON and its partners, ViON said […] More

Research and Markets has launched a market report entitled Global Cloud Security Market 2016-2020 which lists five key vendors in cloud security and predicts a compound annual growth rate of 20.91 percent during the covered period. The company announced Friday the contents of the new report and named Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro as the five top cloud security vendors. […] More

Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built security intelligence tool works to […] More

Bruce Klein and Paul Opalack have joined Tech 2000 Inc. as members of the company’s board of directors. Klein, formerly senior vice president of Cisco’s worldwide partner organization, and Opalack, managing director of Noblestar Capital, will aid in the company’s effort to further the development of its software-as-a-service businesses appnetic and Lumious, Tech 2000 said […] More

Chief information security officers from 26 companies, universities and government agencies have discussed the challenges they faced in 2015 and shared their forecast on cybersecurity-related issues for 2016, Security Current reported Dec. 20. Bret Arsenault, CISO at Microsoft, told Security Current that commercial enterprises should focus on how to improve their current systems that work […] More

AT&T has partnered with seven other technology companies to produce a smart-city development framework intended to help local government organizations to harness  Internet of Things platforms for management of their cities. Cisco, Deloitte, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have agreed to support AT&T’s strategy to help create more connected  communities, AT&T said Tuesday. […] More

IHS has released a new report that forecasts the network advanced threat protection market to hit $1.3 billion in 2019. ATP global sales reached $194 million in the third quarter of 2015, up 53 percent from the same period last year, IHS said Thursday. Jeff Wilson, senior research director for cybersecurity technology at HIS, said […] More

MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that predicts the aviation cybersecurity market will grow to $61.85 billion by 2020, buoyed by increasing cyber threats on aerospace and defense organizations. The report expects on-cloud deployment to rise in demand over the next five years as the rate of cyber attacks across the world continues to increase, […] More

A new Research and Markets report predicts the global wireless sensors market will gain a 20.58-percent compound annual growth rate during the period from 2014 to 2019. The market research firm said Nov. 12 the rising adoption of smart devices will drive the market’s growth during the forecast period. Research and Markets highlighted several trends in […] More

Technavio has released a new report that forecasts the healthcare information technology market in the United Arab Emirates to grow 11.12 percent year over year from 2014 through 2019. Reportlinker said Nov. 12 government and international incentives and standard record format requirements help to spur investments in healthcare IT in the UAE. The report projects […] More