A problem the world’s electronic spy agencies are having is how to crunch an ever-increasing amount of data and separate the good guys from the bad.

Now, 10-year contract, worth US$2 billion (£1.45 billion), has been awarded by the USA’s National Security Agency to develop high-performance computing power, according to Hewlett Packard Enterprise which was given the contract.

The new collaboration will enable the NSA to harness rapidly growing AI and data needs more efficiently to create insights and other forecasting and analysis with optimal performance. By using HPE’s HPC solutions through the HPE GreenLake platform, which provides fully managed, secure cloud services on-premises, the NSA will benefit from an agile, flexible, and secure platform to meet their growing data management requirements.

The new service includes a combination of HPE Apollo systems and HPE ProLiant servers, which ingest and process high volumes of data, and support deep learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. As part of the HPE GreenLake service, HPE will build and manage the complete solution that will be hosted at a QTS data center, a hosting facility that delivers secure, compliant data centere infrastructure and robust connectivity to support scaling of operations.

The new service will go into use starting in 2022.