Hewlett Packard Enterprise is developing a supercomputer to support the National Nuclear Security Administration’s simulation and research activities involving nuclear weapons and stockpile management.

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General Dynamics’ information technology business has installed an update to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hera CS500 supercomputer that supports modeling work for weather monitoring efforts.

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College Park, Md.-based IonQ has raised additional funds as part of its Series B financing round to advance the development of its trapped-ion quantum computers and related hardware. The new funding from Lockheed Martin, Cambium and Robert Bosch Venture Capital brings the total investment in IonQ to $84M.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a potential five-year, $45M partnership opportunity to create weather forecasting models through the establishment of an extramural center. NOAA said Friday it is looking for a technology partner to help the agency establish the Earth Prediction Innovation Center.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has partnered with the National Nuclear Security Administration to deploy an exascale computer to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for nuclear stockpile modernization initiatives.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has partnered with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to field a parallel storage system that will work to support scientific research efforts in physical genomics, aerospace turbulence and earthquake seismic activities.

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Prith Banerjee, a senior client partner at consulting firm Korn Ferry, has been named to Cubic‘s board of directors in a move that takes effect on Saturday. Cubic said Thursday Banerjee will advise the San Diego-based company’s leadership team on innovation efforts and brings research, development, technology, engineering and academic work experience to the board. He currently […] More

The Energy Department‘s Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has launched a call for proposals on the development of data science and machine learning applications to support an exascale supercomputer machine. ALCF said Thursday it will accept proposals for projects related to data science, machine learning and crosscutting simulation data and learning through April 8 as part of the facility’s Aurora […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential seven-year, $43 million contract to the University of Dayton Research Institute for research and development of nonmetallic materials the military branch can use to build, repair and maintain multiple vehicle platforms. UDRI said Monday its research team will perform R&D work on composites, sealands, textiles, adhesives and elastomers […] More

Jason Kimrey is a 13-year veteran of Intel and serves as the chip maker’s U.S. federal area director, where he leads a business development team focused on technology products and services for defense and civilian agencies. Intel’s focus areas for federal agencies include high-performance computing as the company is partnering with the Energy Department and national laboratories to […] More

IBM has completed upgrade work on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s supercomputing systems intended for weather and climate forecasts under a $44.5 million contract. The company worked to increase the operational computing capacity of the Luna and Surge supercomputers from 776 teraflops to 2.89 petaflops each, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. “The faster runs and better spatial […] More

Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More