Honeywell Bull Inc has been given permission by both the US and Japanese governments to manufacture the NEC Corp Acos 1000 large scale mainframe – predecessor of the new DPS 9000 and sold by Honeywell and Bull as the DPS 90, but still bigger than anything Honeywell has developed on its own. Honeywell wants to be able to build the machine because it is bidding it on an undisclosed US government contract that Electronic News believes is the one for replacement of the existing Honeywell DPS 8 and Level 66 mainframes in the WWMCCS WorldWide Military Command & Control System, which is expected to involve at least 35 new mainframes, and is Honeywell Bull’s biggest installed base in the US after the systems at GE Information Services. If Honeywell gets the business, the machines are likely to be built in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The famous Phoenix, Arizona large systems plant is being phased out and manufacturing has transferred to Lawrence, although systems integration of the NEC mainframes stays in Phoenix.
