The Agriculture Department’s agricultural research service office plans to award The Bioteam Inc. a contract to design and implement a science network infrastructure for USDA.USDA issued a notice of intent on May 27 to grant a sole source contract to Bioteam for the development of the Science DMZ Network on Thursday.
Previously, The Bioteam worked on a design and implementation plan based on the recommendations from the Scientific Computing Assessment report.
ARS locations and the information technology infrastructure issues were identified in the report.
The agricultural research service office serves as the USDA’s scientific in-house research agency, where scientists use high-performance computing and cloud-based services to store, manage and analyze large volumes of data.
