Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has agreed to acquire Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) for approximately $1.3B in cash, or $35 per share, in a move to expand high-performance computing technology offerings. HPE said Friday it expects the deal to conclude by the first quarter of its fiscal year 2020 and to …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has won a potential 10-year, $323.9M contract to provide x86 processor capacity services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA set a $770K minimum guarantee on the indefinite-delivery/indefinite–quantity, firm-fixed-price contract and will allocate $675K of the guaranteed amount for the initial delivery order, the Department of Defense …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 5, 2018 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will provide high-performance computing services to astronauts at the International Space Station using its Spaceborne Computer, which has completed a yearlong evaluation of its operation in space conditions, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the supercomputer will …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 26, 2018 — Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) are working with the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center under separate cooperative research and development agreements in an effort to build information technology infrastructures that utilize supply chain risk management, ExecutiveBiz reported …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 16, 2018 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is developing a high-performance computing system for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory under a partnership with the Energy Department aimed at accelerating research across DOE agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. HPE said Tuesday the Eagle supercomputer, which will be equipped with Intel’s …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2018 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will provide a supercomputer to the Energy Department to support the science, energy and national security modeling and simulation workloads of the National Nuclear Security Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. HPE said Monday the ARM-based Astra supercomputer will work to …

AECOM‘s (NYSE: ACM) URS Federal Services arm, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and ViON have received contracts worth up to $591.9 million combined for processor capacity services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. Each indefinite-delivery/indefinite–quantity contract has a five-year base period that runs through April 12, 2023, and five one-year options …

Katie Ebrahimi, a former executive at DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has been named a senior vice president and chief human resources officer of Unisys (NYSE: UIS) in a move slated to take effect April 26. Unisys said Monday Ebrahimi will report directly to President and CEO Peter Altabef and succeed Dave Loeser, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 22, 2018 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will supply supercomputers to the U.S. Navy and Air Force Research Laboratory as well as provide on-site system administration and applications support under two contracts that total $57 million, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the contracts are part …

Executives from Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) enterprise services segment have been named to vice president and director roles at the future merged CSC-HPE ES company that will operate as DXC Technology when it debuts April 3, CRN reported. Michael Novinson writes CSC and HPE tapped Chicago-based executive search firm …