Hewlett-Packard Co.
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., entered into a $25,698,000 technology investment agreement with DARPA on June 15, 2001. The government is funding $12,542,000 of the agreement, with $2,690,450 being awarded at this time. The consortium led by Hewlett-Packard is providing $13,156,000 of the agreement funding. Consortium members include the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , Calif., and Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). , Pittsburgh, Pa. The effort will design and create molecular electronics integrated circuits. Work will be performed in Palo Alto, Calif. (48%), Los Angeles, Calif. (44%), and Pittsburgh, Pa. (8%), and is expected to be completed by June 14, 2005. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. A broad agency announcement was published in the Commerce Business Daily on June 30, 2000, and 11 bids were received. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. government agency administered by the Department of Defense (see Defense, United States Department of). , Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. 972-01-3-0005).
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