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Washington Post
March 24, 2008
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By Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg News
Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense company, won a $344 million contract from the Defense Department to operate and maintain supercomputers at four research centers.
Lockheed will provide services to the department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program, which offers the military supercomputer services, high-speed network communications and computational science expertise, the Bethesda company said last week.
The contract has a one-year, $85 million base and four one-year options.
Lockheed won the order after the Defense Department decided to consolidate four separate contracts, said Joe Wagovich, a spokesman Lockheed. Of the four contracts, two were held by Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif.; and one each was held by Lockheed and Raytheon of Waltham, Mass.
The company will operate computer systems at the Navy Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, both in Mississippi; the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio; and the Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, according to the statement.
The work will be done by Lockheed's subcontractors, High Performance Computing Technologies of Reston; Quantum Recruiting of Dallas; and Victory Solutions of Huntsville, Ala.
March 24, 2008
Pg. D4
By Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg News
Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense company, won a $344 million contract from the Defense Department to operate and maintain supercomputers at four research centers.
Lockheed will provide services to the department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program, which offers the military supercomputer services, high-speed network communications and computational science expertise, the Bethesda company said last week.
The contract has a one-year, $85 million base and four one-year options.
Lockheed won the order after the Defense Department decided to consolidate four separate contracts, said Joe Wagovich, a spokesman Lockheed. Of the four contracts, two were held by Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif.; and one each was held by Lockheed and Raytheon of Waltham, Mass.
The company will operate computer systems at the Navy Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, both in Mississippi; the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio; and the Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, according to the statement.
The work will be done by Lockheed's subcontractors, High Performance Computing Technologies of Reston; Quantum Recruiting of Dallas; and Victory Solutions of Huntsville, Ala.