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Posted: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 8:46 AM HST

Hawaii loses lucrative supercomputer contract

By Associated Press

HONOLULU (AP) — The University of Hawaii is protesting the loss of the most lucrative contract in the school's history. Hawaii News Now reported Tuesday the university has filed a bid protest with the federal government after losing a contract worth as much as $180 million over the last decade to run a supercomputer center on Maui. Earlier this month, the Air Force announced it had awarded the new contract to a mainland defense contractor. The Maui High Performance Computing Center in Kihei is one of six supercomputer centers run by the Department of Defense. The university says it was a hard-fought competition with major defense contractors that compete for these contracts for a living. U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye's spokesman Peter Boylan says losing the bid is disappointing.