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DARPA Awards Vencore $10.3 Million Contract For Dispersed Computing Program

Wednesday, April 19th, 2017

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Vencore Labs Inc., doing business as Applied Communication Sciences, a $10.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a research project under the Dispersed Computing (DCOMP) program, the Defense Department said April 17.The DCOMP program was solicited under a DARPA broad agency announcement (BAA). The program was originally solicited in June 2016 on FedBizOpps.The program aims to produce software instantiations of algorithms and protocol stacks that leverage pervasive, physically dispersed computing platforms to boost application and…

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