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High Performance Computing Modernization Program
Budget Figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →
- FY24
- $246.7M
- FY25
- $239.6M
- FY26
- $241.9M
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $214.6M | $215.1M | $215.5M | $214.1M | $211.5M | $217.4M | $221.2M | $222.2M | $293.0M | $246.7M | ||
| Enacted | $222.2M | $177.2M | $182.3M | $218.1M | $224.8M | $221.2M | $229.1M | $302.0M | $255.8M | $239.6M | ||
| Request | $177.2M | $182.3M | $183.3M | $184.8M | $188.0M | $189.1M | $252.0M | $255.8M | $239.6M | $241.9M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $252.0M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $293.0M actually spent — $41.1M above the request.
Program Lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — High Performance Computing Modernization Program
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) addresses the supercomputing requirements of Department of Defense (DoD) scientists and engineers by: (1) demonstrating and maturing the most advanced, leading-edge computational architectures while exploiting the resulting systems by employing complementary specialized expertise; (2) demonstrating and maturing the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), which investigates, demonstrates, and matures leading-edge digital networking and security technologies to securely deliver computational capabilities to the distributed DoD Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDTE) community; and (3) leveraging specialized expertise from DoD, other federal departments and agencies, industry, and academia to demonstrate and mature leading-edge software application codes. DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) provide extensive computational capabilities to demonstrate and mature emerging technologies that address the supercomputing requirements of the DoD RDTE community in the areas of hardware, software, and programming environments. All HPCMP sites are interconnected to each other, the DoD High Performance Computing (HPC) RDTE community, and other major defense sites via the DREN, a research network which investigates, demonstrates, and matures (a) state-of-the-art digital networking technologies to ensure a robust distributed environment and (b) the most advanced digital security capabilities to protect the intellectual property of the DoD and its contract entities as they employ HPCMP capabilities. The HPCMP's software application effort (a) optimizes, enhances, demonstrates, and matures critical DoD physics-based and engineering software to allow scientists and engineers to execute calculations with precision and efficiency on leading-edge supercomputers, (b) demonstrates and matures immersive collaborative programming environments to improve science and engineering workflows, and (c) demonstrates and matures leading-edge computational technology from academia and industry. These synergistic activities collectively demonstrate and mature horizontal technologies that are exploited across the DoD RDTE community, ensuring the DoD maintains the most advanced research and development ecosystem in computationally-intensive modeling and design. The research cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.104 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $1.425 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — High Performance Computing Modernization Program
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) addresses the supercomputing requirements of Department of Defense (DoD) scientists and engineers by (1) demonstrating and maturing the most advanced, leading-edge computational architectures and exploiting the resulting systems by employing complementary specialized expertise; (2) demonstrating and maturing the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) which investigates, demonstrates, and matures leading-edge digital networking and security technologies to securely deliver computational capabilities to the distributed DoD Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDTE) and acquisition engineering communities; and (3) leveraging specialized expertise from DoD, other federal departments/agencies, industry, and academia to demonstrate and mature leading-edge software application codes. DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) provide extensive computational capabilities and demonstrate and mature emerging technologies that address the supercomputing requirements of the DoD RDTE and acquisition engineering communities in the areas of hardware, software, and programming environments. HPCMP sites are interconnected to each other, the DoD High Performance Computing (HPC) RDTE community, and other major defense sites via DREN, a research network which investigates, demonstrates, and matures (a) state-of-the-art digital networking technologies to ensure a robust distributed environment and (b) the most advanced digital security capabilities to effectively protect the intellectual property of the DoD and its contract entities as they employ HPCMP advanced capabilities. The HPCMP's software application effort (a) optimizes, enhances, demonstrates, and matures critical DoD physics-based and engineering software to allow scientists and engineers to execute calculations with precision and efficiency on leading-edge supercomputers, (b) demonstrates and matures immersive collaborative programming environments to improve science and engineering workflows, and (c) demonstrates and matures leading-edge computational technology from academia and industry. These synergistic activities collectively demonstrate and mature horizontal technologies that are exploited throughout the DoD RDTE and acquisition engineering communities, ensuring the DoD maintains the most advanced research ecosystem in the areas of computationally-intensive modeling and design. The research cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
Mission — High Performance Computing Modernization Program
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) addresses the supercomputing requirements of Department of Defense (DoD) scientists and engineers by: (1) demonstrating and maturing the most advanced, leading-edge computational architectures while exploiting the resulting systems by employing complementary specialized expertise; (2) demonstrating and maturing the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), which investigates, demonstrates, and matures leading-edge digital networking and security technologies to securely deliver computational capabilities to the distributed DoD Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDTE) community; and (3) leveraging specialized expertise from DoD, other federal departments and agencies, industry, and academia to demonstrate and mature leading-edge software application codes. DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) provide extensive computational capabilities to demonstrate and mature emerging technologies that address the supercomputing requirements of the DoD RDTE community in the areas of hardware, software, and programming environments. All HPCMP sites are interconnected to each other, the DoD High Performance Computing (HPC) RDTE community, and other major defense sites via the DREN, a research network which investigates, demonstrates, and matures (a) state-of-the-art digital networking technologies to ensure a robust distributed environment and (b) the most advanced digital security capabilities to protect the intellectual property of the DoD and its contract entities as they employ HPCMP capabilities. The HPCMP's software application effort (a) optimizes, enhances, demonstrates, and matures critical DoD physics-based and engineering software to allow scientists and engineers to execute calculations with precision and efficiency on leading-edge supercomputers, (b) demonstrates and matures immersive collaborative programming environments to improve science and engineering workflows, and (c) demonstrates and matures leading-edge computational technology from academia and industry. These synergistic activities collectively demonstrate and mature horizontal technologies that are exploited across the DoD RDTE community, ensuring the DoD maintains the most advanced research and development ecosystem in computationally-intensive modeling and design. The research cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.104 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $1.425 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — High Performance Computing Modernization Program
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) addresses the supercomputing requirements of Department of Defense (DoD) scientists and engineers by (1) demonstrating and maturing the most advanced, leading-edge computational architectures and exploiting the resulting systems by employing complementary specialized expertise; (2) demonstrating and maturing the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) which investigates, demonstrates, and matures leading-edge digital networking and security technologies to securely deliver computational capabilities to the distributed DoD Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDTE) and acquisition engineering communities; and (3) leveraging specialized expertise from DoD, other federal departments/agencies, industry, and academia to demonstrate and mature leading-edge software application codes. DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) provide extensive computational capabilities and demonstrate and mature emerging technologies that address the supercomputing requirements of the DoD RDTE and acquisition engineering communities in the areas of hardware, software, and programming environments. HPCMP sites are interconnected to each other, the DoD High Performance Computing (HPC) RDTE community, and other major defense sites via DREN, a research network which investigates, demonstrates, and matures (a) state-of-the-art digital networking technologies to ensure a robust distributed environment and (b) the most advanced digital security capabilities to effectively protect the intellectual property of the DoD and its contract entities as they employ HPCMP advanced capabilities. The HPCMP's software application effort (a) optimizes, enhances, demonstrates, and matures critical DoD physics-based and engineering software to allow scientists and engineers to execute calculations with precision and efficiency on leading-edge supercomputers, (b) demonstrates and matures immersive collaborative programming environments to improve science and engineering workflows, and (c) demonstrates and matures leading-edge computational technology from academia and industry. These synergistic activities collectively demonstrate and mature horizontal technologies that are exploited throughout the DoD RDTE and acquisition engineering communities, ensuring the DoD maintains the most advanced research ecosystem in the areas of computationally-intensive modeling and design. The research cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (6)
Software Applications
This effort optimizes, enhances, demonstrates, and matures software applications to provide for the adaptation of widely used applications and algorithms to address RDTE and acquisition engineering communities requirements. The Computational Research Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) initiative demonstrates and matures advanced application codes to allow scientists and engineers to use supercomputers to design and analyze virtual prototypes of DoD ships, fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft, ground vehicles, and radio frequency (RF) antennas; HPCMP Institutes demonstrate and mature advanced supercomputing application codes to address critical high-impact DoD challenges (e.g. blast protection for platforms and personnel, high-power microwaves and lasers, munition sensitivities, and mobile network designs/prototypes); High Performance Computing Applications Software Initiative (HASI) projects address the need to mature and refine critical DoD software that can take advantage of new and emerging hardware advances; the Frontier initiative represents and supports the DoD's highest-priority, highest-impact, most demanding computational work, both from a technical and mission-relevance standpoint; the Productivity, Enhancement, Technology Transfer, and Training (PETTT) initiative (1) optimizes and enhances critical DoD physics based and engineering software to allow scientists and engineers to execute scientific calculations with precision and efficiency on leading-edge supercomputers, (2) demonstrates and matures immersive collaborative programming environments to improve science and engineering workflows, and (3) demonstrates and matures leading-edge computational technology from academia and industry.
Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers
The effort investigates, demonstrates, and matures general and special-purpose supercomputing environments that incorporate the most advanced, leading-edge computational architectures, distributed mass storage technologies, and data analysis methodologies; employs complementary specialized expertise to mature and exploit these environments; enables the DoD RDTE and acquisition engineering communities to effectively and efficiently investigate, demonstrate, and mature a broad range of technologies through advanced computational methods.
Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)
The DREN effort investigates, demonstrates, and matures state-of-the-art digital networking technologies to ensure a robust distributed environment among HPCMP sites, the DoD HPC RDTE and acquisition engineering communities, and other major defense sites; investigates, demonstrates, and matures the most advanced digital security capabilities to effectively protect the intellectual property of the DoD and its contract entities as they employ HPCMP advanced capabilities; employs complementary specialized expertise to mature and exploit this environment.
Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers
The effort investigates, demonstrates, and matures general and special-purpose supercomputing environments that incorporate the most advanced, leading-edge computational architectures, distributed mass storage technologies, and data analysis methodologies; employs complementary specialized expertise to mature and exploit these environments; enables the DoD RDTE and acquisition engineering communities to effectively and efficiently investigate, demonstrate, and mature a broad range of technologies through advanced computational methods.
Software Applications
This effort optimizes, enhances, demonstrates, and matures software applications to provide for the adaptation of widely used applications and algorithms to address RDTE and acquisition engineering communities requirements. The Computational Research Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) initiative demonstrates and matures advanced application codes to allow scientists and engineers to use supercomputers to design and analyze virtual prototypes of DoD ships, fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft, ground vehicles, and radio frequency (RF) antennas; HPCMP Institutes demonstrate and mature advanced supercomputing application codes to address critical high-impact DoD challenges (e.g. blast protection for platforms and personnel, high-power microwaves and lasers, munition sensitivities, and mobile network designs/prototypes); High Performance Computing Applications Software Initiative (HASI) projects address the need to mature and refine critical DoD software that can take advantage of new and emerging hardware advances; the Frontier initiative represents and supports the DoD's highest-priority, highest-impact, most demanding computational work, both from a technical and mission-relevance standpoint; the Productivity, Enhancement, Technology Transfer, and Training (PETTT) initiative (1) optimizes and enhances critical DoD physics based and engineering software to allow scientists and engineers to execute scientific calculations with precision and efficiency on leading-edge supercomputers, (2) demonstrates and matures immersive collaborative programming environments to improve science and engineering workflows, and (3) demonstrates and matures leading-edge computational technology from academia and industry.
Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)
The DREN effort investigates, demonstrates, and matures state-of-the-art digital networking technologies to ensure a robust distributed environment among HPCMP sites, the DoD HPC RDTE and acquisition engineering communities, and other major defense sites; investigates, demonstrates, and matures the most advanced digital security capabilities to effectively protect the intellectual property of the DoD and its contract entities as they employ HPCMP advanced capabilities; employs complementary specialized expertise to mature and exploit this environment.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $246.7M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $239.6M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $239.6M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $241.9M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $241.9M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DS7: High Performance Computing Modernization Program | $246.7M | $239.6M | $241.9M | $241.9M |
| Program Element | $246.7M | $239.6M | $241.9M | $241.9M |
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
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Lobbying Mentions
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No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →