e/Defense Research and Engineering Network

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has gloss	eng: The Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) is the United States Department of Defense’s research and engineering computer network. It is a major component of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program. The DREN is a high-speed, high-capacity, low-latency nation-wide computer network for computational scientific research, engineering, and testing in support of DoDs Science & Technology and Test & Evaluation communities. The DREN connects scientists and engineers at the HPCMPs geographically dispersed High Performance Computing (HPC) user sites, including the four Major Shared Resource Centers—Army Research Laboratory, Engineer Research and Development Center, Naval Oceanographic Office, Air Force Research Lab —along with more than 150 distributed centers like other government laboratories, test centers, universities, and industrial locations . The sites connected by DREN services may be at virtually any location in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.
lexicalization	eng: Defense Research and Engineering Network
instance of	(noun) a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network WAN, wide area network