Cray Inc. announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has selected two Cray CS500(TM) systems for its High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) annual technology procurement known as TI-18. The Army Research Lab (ARL) and the U.S. Army Engineering and Research Development Center (ERDC) will each deploy a Cray CS500 to help serve the U.S. through accelerated research in science and technology. The two contracts are valued at more than $46 million and the CS500 systems are expected to be delivered to ARL and ERDC in the fourth quarter of 2019.