Puneet Mehta, formerly senior director at Peraton, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as chief technologist. His professional experience encompasses large-scale enterprise information technology service sales and operations, coupled with the management of expansive and high-visibility IT initiatives.

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Steven Irish was appointed vice president and general manager of defense enterprise and health solutions at Peraton. The executive was VP and general manager of financial and regulatory agencies at Perspecta for nearly three years before the company was acquired by Veritas Capital and integrated into its portfolio company Peraton.

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Raymond Holder, a two-decade government market veteran, has joined Maximus to serve as vice president of digital growth. Holder announced his new position Wednesday on LinkedIn and came to Maximus from Amazon Web Services, where he spent the last four years as an executive strategist for the latter’s federal business. He was previously growth leader […] More

A General Atomics-led team has secured a three-year, $7.4 million grant from the Department of Energy to to build an integrated artificial intelligence and machine learning tool researchers can use to analyze fusion science data. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sapientai and the University of California will serve as team members on the fusion data platform development […] More

Los Alamos National Laboratory is in the process of testing Crossroads, the successor to a high-performance computing machine used by the National Nuclear Security Administration to monitor U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built system will replace the aging Trinity supercomputer as part of NNSA’s continuous upgrades to support large data sets for stockpile […] More

A U.S. Army research and development center has tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise to help the Department of Defense modernize the high performance computing capabilities of its laboratories. HPE was awarded a $26.5 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center for HPC Modernization Program support over a 70-month performance […] More

Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy have finished the installation of 10,624 compute blades into the Aurora exascale supercomputer at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Aurora uses the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric and comes with 1,024 storage nodes designed to provide 220 petabytes of capacity, Intel said Thursday. The supercomputer is […] More

GE Aerospace developed a computational fluid dynamics software that could be paired with the Department of Energy’s supercomputer, Frontier, to support engine development.  The company said Saturday it conducted simulations on Frontier using the software to evaluate the performance of a novel open fan engine architecture, which is showing promise in helping reduce carbon emissions […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency is deploying a suite of cloud-based edge services platforms from Hewlett Packard Enterprise to modernize and secure its multi-class wireless networks as part of a broader digital transformation initiative. The effort includes the deployment of HPE Aruba Networking Wi-Fi 6 Access Points and HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass to enable secure […] More

John Phillips, an industry veteran who previously served at IronNet Cybersecurity and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, was named vice president of federal sales at network security company MixMode. In his new role, Phillips will oversee the growth of MixMode’s federal business and the adoption of its artificial intelligence-powered platform by federal partners, the company said Wednesday.  […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have started installing a supercomputer, dubbed Kestrel, designed to advance research on clean energy technologies and renewable energy. DOE’s office of energy efficiency and renewable energy will use the high-performance computing system to pursue research in continuum mechanics and computational materials and perform […] More

Henry Tragle, a former director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba subsidiary, has been appointed vice president of the Department of Defense at Iron Bow Technologies. In a LinkedIn post, Tragle shared that he will be responsible for the U.S. Army and Defense Information Systems Agency groups at the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered technology company. Tragle’s move followed […] More