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Ross Wilkers

Senior Staff Reporter

Ross Wilkers
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Companies

Woven Solutions purchases systems engineering outfit

Falfurrias Management Partners has supported Woven Solutions through four acquisitions since entering the investment a year ago.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Companies

Tyto Athene buys cloud migration provider

Ready Support Services brings a relationship with ServiceNow to its acquirer.

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.

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.

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.

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.