BAE scores $699 million contract to support US Army supercomputers

Defense giant BAE Systems has secured a five-year $699 million contract with the US Army in support of the force's high-performance computing (HPC) programs. According to BAE, it was awarded to cover Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) operations and management services in support of the Army's High Performance …

[VoiceOfTruth]

Therein lies the problem

-> BAE is perhaps better known for aircraft, armored vehicles, and warships than IT systems

Indeed. And all of that it acquired by buying other companies. BAe has no expertise in computing, let alone supercomputing. So from where has it bought in this expertise?

[Spazturtle]

Re: Therein lies the problem

BAE has had a computing and electronics division since 2005 when they acquired IBM Federal Systems. All the radiation hardened CPUs used on NASA's Mars rovers were designed by BAE Electronics division and manufactured by BAE's lithography division (yes BAE has it's own specialist fabs).

[NeilPost]

Re: Therein lies the problem

However for HPC … little experience.

You would have thought HPE would be the natural partner for this sort of stuff considering they are buying it’s bespoke hardware.

[steelpillow]

Re: Therein lies the problem

BAE Systems was formed from a merger of British Aerospace with GEC - the General Electric Company, a major conglomerate of pretty much all the historic the UK power engineering, electronics and systems and I don't know what all else houses. So akshully, BAE has the track record in spades.

[elsergiovolador]

Where does the money go?

So if you go to BAE website and look for Senior Network Engineer job, you will be making a whopping (up to) £48000 depending on experience.

That's £2,988.74 net assuming you don't have a student debt and don't do pension sacrifice.

I looked up a full-time cleaner job (which you don't have to spend years to learn how to do) and without difficulty I found one offering £2,271.18 net.

Where do they find workers? I does not make sense, unless the workers get a second salary from an enemy state?

[VoiceOfTruth]

Re: Where does the money go?

As a society we do not generally value engineers and scientists. A Tube driver's salary is more than £48,000. I would not personally want to be a Tube driver, so good luck to them.

Network Engineers and Systems Administrators are not the Gods we think we are. We are in fact the labourers and hod carriers of our time.

[Patched Out]

You are looking at the BAE Systems UK site. Better to look at the BAE Systems, Inc. site for U.S. jobs. Of course you'll need U.S. Citizenship for most positions...