High-Performance Computing

Teledyne reportedly will buy instrumentation analyzer firm

Company will pay $291 million for firm that makes instruments that measure and analyze complex electronic signals.

  • By Washington Technology staff

General Dynamics adds new mainframe capabilities for Army agency

The $20.2 million contract calls for General Dynamics IT to provide unclassified and classified mainframe computerized processing for the Army IT Agency.

  • By David Hubler

STRATIS selects UMD, MIT labs as IT research partners

They will jointly pursue technology research and development projects to enhance complex computing capabilities.

  • By David Hubler

Dell sets sights on cloud client-computing provider

Acquisition will expand computer giant’s enterprise solutions portfolio and desktop virtualization capabilities.

  • By David Hubler

Serco solution will forecast number of Army soldiers needed

Serco wins $9 million award to help predict number of soldiers needed every seven years.

  • By Alysha Sideman

Women In Technology awards nominations open

Honorees are recognized for their talent within the field of technology.

  • By Alysha Sideman
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Citizant devises energy-measurement system for HUD

When completed the data-monitoring system will track and report on how grant funds are being used for energy conservation.

  • By David Hubler

Mind-reading computers, eyeball security and more things to look forward to

IBM researchers give technology predictions that will occur by 2016. What is going to change our lives?

  • By Alysha Sideman

LGS router will accommodate 10-fold boost in DOE data traffic

LGS Innovations is teaming with the Energy Department to build a $62 million expanded bandwidth Ethernet network that will allow scientists to develop new technologies and innovations for energy, climate and other research.

  • By David Hubler

IBM’s new security systems unit swells with latest purchase

IBM Corp. expands its new Security Systems division with the acquisition of Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Mass., provider of security intelligence software.

  • By David Hubler

Intel creates subsidiary to seek federal business

Intel Corp. has launched a wholly owned subsidiary, Intel Federal LLC, to provide strategic focus as the chipmaker seeks new opportunities within the federal government, initially in the area of high-performance computing.

  • By David Hubler

Honeywell's purchase of EMS is 2 steps closer to completion

Honeywell International Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Egret Acquisition Corp. has received early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and received the required foreign antitrust approval in Austria.

  • By David Hubler

IBM's Watson charts new frontiers for computer science

IBM's "Jeopardy!"-winning computer broadens the boundaries of human-machine interactivity.

  • By Henry Kenyon
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Challenge IBM's Watson, see the best mobile apps and more at FOSE

On the FOSE 2011 show floor, you can match wits with Watson, hang out at the BlackBerry Lounge, spend time at the Mobile Apps Theater and take in a full roster of live demonstrations.

  • By John Breeden II

IBM's chief innovator peers into the 21st century

Bernard Meyerson, IBM's vice president for innovation, connects the company's first 100 years to where IBM is headed.

  • By David Hubler

SRI, DARPA partner on visual system for unmanned surveillance

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, SRI International Inc. is leading a team to design a visual intelligence system that will usher in a new era in unmanned robotic surveillance.

  • By David Hubler

For 100 years, IBM kept changing in order to stay IBM

There are scads of reasons IBM has survived and thrived over the last century, but not least of them has been technological innovation.

  • By Kevin McCaney

HP CEO pledges $2B for cloud deployments

Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO reveals plans to ramp up its cloud, mobility and enterprise software offerings.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Lockheed and NASA set sights, budget on Mars and beyond

NASA and Lockheed Martin may be able to overcome gravity, but can they overcome federal budget limitations to put a manned crew into deep space and return it safely to Earth within the next few decades?

  • By David Hubler

Northrop gains $141M follow-on award for DOD ID system

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a follow-on task order by the Defense Department valued at up to $141 million to continue developing an automated identification system to be used to spot suspected threats to U.S. national security.

  • By David Hubler

Cisco sets off fire sale of Linksys, other poorly performing units

Cisco is looking to unload its Linksys business and other poorly performing units may be soon to follow.

  • By Washington Technology staff