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$45,624,446

Department of Energy·Department of Energy

to SILVER LAKE CONSTRUCTION LLC

energyactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-04-19·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_89243324CFE000088_8900_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACILITY SBA REQUIREMENT #QR1701437364V

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Construction of a computational science and engineering facility for Department of Energy operations.

Sub-sectors
doe-national-labscomputational-scienceresearch-infrastructure
Why this matters

DOE computational facilities support nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, climate modeling, and advanced energy research critical to national security.

Supply-chain signal

Large construction contract signals demand for specialized engineering, high-performance computing infrastructure, and secure facility construction capabilities.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. computational science infrastructure investments compete with China's supercomputing advances in scientific research and weapons simulation.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002092.

Period of performance
Start
2024-04-19
End
2027-04-30
Status
activein 346 days
Sources

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