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NOAA Awards High-Performance Computing Contract

Mary Mosquera writes on GCN.com:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today awarded Raytheon Co. a contract today worth up to $368 million for high-performance computing resources to support advances in NOAA's environmental modeling capabilities.

For the first time, NOAA is procuring services for all its applied research and development high-performance computing requirements across the agency to achieve economies of scale but will provide flexibility in the resulting services. NOAA is an agency of the Commerce Department.

The contract with Raytheon Information Systems of Upper Marlboro, Md., consists of a three-year base period, a four-year option period and a one-year option to provide for contract transition. NOAA expects initial delivery of the distributed high-performance computing system in October. The total ceiling value of the contract inclusive of all options is $368 million.

posted by Fergie @ 5/05/2006 05:25:00 PM