Air Force moves to boost applications performance

The Air Force has awarded a contract worth nearly $12 million to BAE Systems to find ways to boost the performance of the service's computing system applications.

Under the contract, BAE Systems’ National Security Solutions unit will help improve programmer productivity and application performance by establishing an Architecture-Aware Compiler Environment, Defense Department officials said March 9.

The work entails developing compilers that can make computer applications run faster. A compiler is a program that translates instructions written in a symbolic language into machine language so that the instructions can be executed efficiently.

BAE Systems National Security Solutions designs and builds large subsystems and modular components for information systems used by the defense and intelligence communities.

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.