TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Harris Wins $61M Wireless Infrastructure Contract

By TechTaffy Desk

Veterans_AffairsHarris Corporation has been awarded the final phase of a three-phase program to build a wireless infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The contract is valued at $60 million over four years, with all options exercised.

Harris will design, install and support the wireless infrastructure that provides VA medical centers with voice, video, data, real-time-location-services, and electronic health and other information systems. The contract continues work previously performed under the first two phases of the program.

Harris deployed solutions at 66 medical sites under the first two phases and is expected to complete deployment at 112 medical centers nationwide.

The Harris team includes subcontractors Advanced Management Strategies Group, By Light Professional IT Services, C-CAT, DTREDS, Mason Technologies, and Synaptek.

[Image courtesy: Department of Veterans Affairs]

Just in

Series A

Tembo raises $14M

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Tembo, a Postgres managed service provider, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
Around the web

Raspberry Pi is now a public company — TC

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate, writes Romain Dillet. 
Fundings

AlphaSense raises $650M

AlphaSense, a market intelligence and search platform, has raised $650 million in funding, co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners.
Around the web

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI — VentureBeat

Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, writes Shubham Sharma. 
IT

Capgemini partners with DARPA to explore quantum computing for carbon capture

Capgemini Government Solutions has launched a new initiative with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate quantum computing's potential in carbon capture.