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QinetiQ North America to Provide U.S. Navy's SEATech with High-Performance Computing Systems Support
WEST BETHESDA, Md., May 12, 2009— The Naval Surface Warfare
Command’s Carderock Division has awarded QinetiQ North America’s
Systems Engineering Group a five-year contract to provide
high-performance computing systems support to the Ship Engineering
and Analysis Technology Center (SEATech) in West Bethesda, Md.
The five-year contract, awarded under the Seaport Enhanced (SeaPort-e)
contract vehicle, has a total ceiling value of $4.4 million.
SEATech operates advanced computational, networking, visualization
and collaborative facilities for use by a wide range of Navy and
Department of Defense organizations. Its computational facilities
are designed to handle some of the most difficult naval engineering
problems, such as those involving hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic
research, design and engineering.
QinetiQ North America will support SEATech in the areas of Program
and Financial Management, High-Performance Computing System
Administration, Network Engineering, Information Management and
Security, and Advanced Visualization and Collaboration Tools.
About QinetiQ North America:
QinetiQ North America delivers world-class technology and responsive
solutions to government agencies and commercial customers for many
of their most urgent and complex challenges. QinetiQ North America
is an independent, innovative technology provider that earns over a
billion dollars in revenue operating with small company speed and
agility while leveraging significant global resources. More than
6,400 QinetiQ North America engineers, scientists and technicians
have the mission knowledge and proven, reliable performance to meet
the rapidly changing demands of national defense, homeland security
and information assurance customers. QinetiQ North America is part
of QinetiQ Group plc, (QQ.LSE), one of the world’s leading defense
and security technology companies. For more information:
www.QinetiQ-NA.com.
Media Contact:
Mike Ruggeri
Vice President, Communications
Westar Aerospace & Defense Group, Inc.
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