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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

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.

Companies

PDW acquires communications tech, engineering specialist

The maker of small uncrewed aircraft sees this move as part of its vertical integration strategy.

Companies

A handful of CEO-level transitions and more leadership moves across the market

Key promotions and hires focused on investment activity, technology development, operations and finance also feature in this listing.

Contracts

CISA sketches out timeline for incident response, threat hunting contract

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is seeking an industry partner to help deploy, develop and maintain technologies used by its threat hunting office.

Contracts

VA embarks on its search for enterprise cloud broker

This contract would designate a company as the Veterans Affairs Department's primary assistant in acquiring cloud computing capabilities from the hyperscalers and software tool makers.

Companies

Omni acquires synaptic intelligence tool developer

The software integrator is looking to add neuroscience-like functions into its offerings.

Companies

Mach Industries hauls in $300M to move on second-generation systems

The unmanned systems maker has five vehicles under development and wants to do more for military organizations like the Army and Air Force.

Contracts

KBR wins $8B Antarctica research recompete

KBR's government services unit beats out three other bids as it prepares to go it alone as an independent public company.

Contracts

CMS chooses finalists for Medicare claims processing competition

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will eventually choose one integrator after seeing how their prototypes function in a set of challenges.