URS Corp. has won two separate environmental remediation contracts to help clean U.S. Army Corps of Engineers facilities in Utah and Kansas. For the Kansas-based McConnell Air Force Base, URS will use in-situ remediation technologies to treat chlorinated and petroleum-related contaminants, the company announced Feb. 20. URS will also provide the Utah Test and Training Range and […] More

A storage platform developed by EMC contains data activity tracking features developed by STEALTHbits Technologies. STEALTHbits designs its products to serve as a source for unstructured data governance and reporting for EMC and RSA customers, STEALTHbits announced Tuesday. The data activity tracking feature is built to security professionals gauge controls of data security systems. “Our biggest customers […] More

New research from Accenture has predicted an emergence in new offerings that are intended to help expand electronic health records according to market needs. According to the study, the world’s hospital-based EHR market will reach $22.3 billion by December 2015, a market slowdown at 5 percent growth annually from 9 percent in 2010. Despite the […] More

RSA Security has added Secure Access Technologies to the Secured by RSA Certified Partner Program for its mobile authentication and proximity security technology that can interoperate with RSA SecurID, enabling enterprise and workforce mobility. MobileID wirelessly connects with a computer or tablet to enable automatic inputting of the RSA SecurID code generated on the user’s smartphone, SAT said […] More

IBM Corp. and CrowdStrike Inc. have jointly developed a managed security service aimed at helping customers to combat cyber threats. The cyber threat intelligence service is intended to combine intelligence, technologies, analysts and services from both companies so that organizations can assess their security posture, CrowdStrike said Monday. Kris Lovejoy, general manager of IBM security […] More

Carlos Fernandes serves as director of Salient Federal Solutions‘ Cyber Security Center of Excellence and recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Insurance Technology Association. The more-than 21-year information security veteran was the founder, managing principal and CEO of Agile Cybersecurity Solutions prior to joining Salient. The Air Force veteran has also held leadership roles at CACI, L-3, Booz Allen […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has delivered four phased array antennas for the Orion spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and prime contractor Lockheed Martin, as preparations are underway ahead of Orion’s inaugural flight in September. The antennas are intended to help comprise of Orion’s voice, video and data communications systems and be installed on Orion’s exterior, […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has launched a new mapping and navigational technology offering for mobile device users. TCS developed the Gokivo 2.0 app with existing location-based services technologies for users to view weather conditions in real time through the DopplerNav weather overlay, TCS said Monday. Jay Whitehurst, president of TCS’ commercial software group, said Gokivo 2.0 is intended to […] More

Siemens’ healthcare business unit has introduced a new healthcare management platform offering that is intended to help providers fulfill new care and payment requirements of different service models. The CareXcell system contains new technologies designed to help providers manage patient care and monitor risks through an open communication and data sharing platform, Siemens said Thursday. […] More

Conway Jones Jr., a board member at Concurrent Technologies Corp., has been elected chairman of Alameda County, Calif.’s Veterans Affairs Commission. Jones will run the commission that assists and advise the county’s board of supervisors on needs and issues facing the veterans community, CTC announced Feb. 14. The board plans to build a new $210 million […] More

Salient Federal Solutions will host the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission‘s data center operations in a cloud computing environment under a potential five-year, $4 million contract. The company will use a managed services environment to host the commission’s telecommunications and e-government applications, as well as help migrate and integrate the EEOC’s systems into a cloud platform, Salient […] More

IBM has launched a security diagnostics technology offering for enterprises to protect data and networks from external and internal threats. The company intends for security teams within organizations to deploy the Security QRadar Incident Forensics software to reconstruct the activities of cyber criminals for investigation, IBM said Tuesday. Brendan Hannigan, general manager of IBM Security Systems, […] More