$25.5M contract awarded to Wright Patt

Cray Inc. has been awarded a $25.5 million contract for Department Of Defense high-performance computing modernization work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Three bids were recieved, according to the DoD. Work will take place on the base with a completion date of Aug. 13, 2025.

The work was contracted out of Huntsville, Alabama. by the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers.

Last year, Wright-Patterson pulled back the curtain on the multi-million dollar supercomputers there that support classified data work for missions across the Defense Department. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a year ago, unveiled the first-ever “Shared Above-Secret Department of Defense High Performance Computing Capability” at its Supercomputing Resource Center, one of only four such sites supported by the Pentagon.

Jeff Graham — director of the AFRL Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) — said the new capability will save billions, while providing access to state-of-the-art computing.

It was to be the first time the center would support high classification computing, Dalton said.

Five years ago, Cray also won a $30.75 million contract to provide high-performance computing resources at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Cray specializes in supercomputers, open-systems data storage, and analytics for data. Messages seeking comment were sent Monday to spokespeople for Cray/Hewlett Packard Enterprise.