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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.
Contracts
DISA starts to craft $500M access portal support recompete
The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to hear from companies with experience and knowledge in the ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday and Palantir platforms.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Serco prioritizes defense, space in $292M QinetiQ US acquisition
Barbara Supplee, just two months into her role as Serco's North America CEO, says the planned acquisition will add specialized engineering and technology expertise.
- By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts
WT 360: How frontier AI is reordering the cyber landscape
Shawn Smagh, director of intelligence at GreyNoise, unpacks the cybersecurity tradecraft’s evolution as the frontier artificial intelligence labs keep pushing their new models and what successful government-industry partnerships look like.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
System One hires Heneghan to lead government unit
The bulk of System One's federal work resides in its Gap Solutions and KeyLogic subsidiaries, respectively acquired in 2017 and 2023.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Slingshot Aerospace appoints one of its early investors as CEO
Slingshot Aerospace is also welcoming back a co-founder to chair the board as it enters a new phase of its strategy in space operations intelligence and autonomy.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Deloitte wins $488M FAA modernization challenge contract
The Federal Aviation Administration is pushing toward an operating framework more heavily tilted toward cloud-native architectures, automated workflows and artificial intelligence.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
New entrants, adaptation shape GovCon in Northern Virginia
The industry's future trajectory, and that of the overall Northern Virginia region, still depends on talent for tech-intensive fields in government and non-government markets.
- By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts
WT 360: All about the government’s new data ownership boundaries in this AI age
Mark Whittington, vice president of government sales at Seekr’s federal business, goes over the implications of new federal rules on contractors' handling of government data within large language models.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
SBA official: industry's voice needed on size standard proposals
In remarks at the 2026 GovCon Awards, Ryan Lambert of the Small Business Administration reminded attendees they have two weeks left to submit comments.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Leidos hones cyber product bet on the 'whole AI-powered patching process'
In talking with Wall Street, chief executive Tom Bell sheds some light on Leidos' new Parcata offering that relies on large language models to find security problems with software.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Tech, finance and sales leadership moves across the market
The business unit being spun off from KBR features in our newest listing of key hires and promotions.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Aptim hires V2X's former leader as chief executive
Chuck Prow oversaw the creation of V2X via the 2022 merger of Vertex and Vectrus.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Delphinus, Shorepoint and Tenica close on acquisitions
Private capital is behind all three transactions that cut across the market's maritime, cybersecurity and intelligence community domains.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Telos promotes Griffin to CEO as Wood steps back
John Wood's transition to executive chairman of the board of directors concludes his 32-year run as chief executive, a tenure marked by the cyber company's initial public offering in 2020.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Judge peels apart protests against DHA's $1.6B health readiness award
A Court of Federal Claims judge analogized the plaintiffs to having "done their best impression of a lint roller" in trying to nitpick the Defense Health Agency and reminds all protesters to not do that, but instead fully develop arguments around a few issues.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Growth, human capital and operations leadership moves across the market
Key hires at one of the industry's most active private capital identities and a frontier artificial intelligence company feature in this listing.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Thales hires Zolet to lead US defense subsidiary
David Zolet will lead a Thales Defense & Space Inc. portfolio that includes tactical and satellite communications, as well as electronic warfare and cybersecurity.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Northwood closes $375M Series C raise for space network ambitions
Washington Harbour Partners is staying involved in this two-year-old antenna maker, which also counts In-Q-Tel as an investor.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
WT 360: SPA and the widening nature of technical advisory services
Rich Sawchak, chief executive of Systems Planning & Analysis, describes how companies like SPA have incorporated faster timelines into their analysis and operational work as artificial intelligence increasingly enters the equation.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
General Dynamics' next CEO prioritizes consistency for the tech shops
In talking with Wall Street, Danny Deep charts out the paths forward for the IT services and mission systems units as he prepares for his next role.
- By Ross Wilkers