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Ross Wilkers
Senior Staff Reporter
Ross Wilkers covers the business of government contracting, companies and trends that shape the market. He joined WT in 2017 and works with Editor-in-Chief Nick Wakeman to host and produce our WT 360 podcast that features discussions with the market's leading executives and voices. Ross is a native of Northern Virginia and is an alumnus of George Mason University.
Companies
Twenty closes $100M Series B round for offensive cyber tech development
Several members of the two-year-old company's founding team helm from Palo Alto Networks, including CEO Joe Lin.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Concurrent Technologies hires Parsons vet Hamilton as CEO
CTC is embarking on its new 10-year strategic plan that retiring CEO Ed Sheehan Jr. oversaw the development of.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Army unveils first sketch of commercial tech contract for test, evaluation
Army officials are currently looking at separate product and services pools for this multiple-award vehicle.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
DISA starts to craft $850M Army-focused cyber recompete
The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to hear from companies with experience in large-scale cyber initiatives and Zero Trust architectures.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Empower AI books $255M DISA enterprise IT recompete
The Defense Information Systems Agency is emphasizing targeted automation for the next cycle of this progra.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
GALT Aerospace acquires electronic product maker
This is GALT's first acquisition with the support of Godspeed Capital and adds a manufacturing facility that is intended to be the centerpiece for tech innovation and transition efforts.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
DHS finalizes first Cumulus cloud contract with AWS
The Homeland Security Department is working on contracts with the other three major hyperscalers and a separate, multiple-award competition for support services.
- By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts
WT 360: Key points (and questions too) from Trump’s fixed-price contracting and AI orders
Stephanie Kostro, president of the Professional Services Council, overviews how industry is looking at what President Trump’s executive orders on fixed-price contracts and artificial intelligence mean for them, among other burning GovCon topics.
- By Nick Wakeman and Ross Wilkers
Companies
Operations, tech and growth leadership moves across the market
A former FBI chief information officer and retired National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director feature in this listing.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Navy awards 59 seats on $249M logistics IT contract
The Navy is looking to modernize enterprise IT systems that are used for maintenance and logistics operations, including supply chain management.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Woven Solutions purchases systems engineering outfit
Falfurrias Management Partners has supported Woven Solutions through four acquisitions since entering the investment a year ago.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
KBR wins $1.1B weather data collection recompete
The National Weather Service uses this contract to fuse data from both its own platforms and those operated by non-federal entities in order to fill coverage gaps.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
GSA gets moving on second batch of Polaris SDVOSB awards
Pending size challenges, this group of 17 companies would join the batch of 27 companies that have been designated official winners.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
CACI's Gray to retire
DeEtte Gray first joined CACI in 2017 as president of U.S. operations and currently leads a group of 20,000 employees.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
DHA plans shift in approach for electronic health record follow-on
The Defense Health Agency has outlined its paths for both a cloud migration effort and working with more than one company for the EHR ecosystem.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Tyto Athene buys cloud migration provider
Ready Support Services brings a relationship with ServiceNow to its acquirer.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
JP Donovan gets Godspeed's backing
The specialized infrastructure construction outfit is looking to further build out its delivery capacity for space and defense programs.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Apex, Axiom and Impulse Space detail their newest venture rounds
Each company is focusing on efforts to expand manufacturing capacity and other aspects of scaling out their businesses.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Quantum Space agrees on transaction that will take it public
Quantum Space is looking to ride the wave of investor interest in the sector as SpaceX's initial public offering looms over the capital markets.
- By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts
WT 360: All about AE Industrial’s place in the market's private capital action
Kirk Konert, managing partner at AE Industrial Partners, describes his firm’s approach of aligning investment decisions with government priorities and tells the story of how two portfolio companies hit the public markets.
- By Ross Wilkers