Meiko Scientific Plc, Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement: complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one; Meiko repudiates the damaging impressions created in a New York Times story on the order, saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven, pointing to over 400 installations, and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington.
