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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
Cyber, tech and operations leadership moves across the market
One major market player featured in this listing adds a trio of vice presidents to its ranks.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
HawkEye 360 hires Lockheed vet to lead US government biz
John Monahan joins the commercial satellite operator a handful of months after its initial public offering.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Autonomy, space and logistics startups detail their newest capital raises
The venture investment arms of Booz Allen Hamilton and RTX Corp. are among those involved in the action here.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Chickasaw Nation's contracting arm buys network engineering provider
CNI Federal Services business adds a technology services portfolio that includes an alternative method for speeding up connections and delivering data.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Census Bureau partially sketches out timeline for $2.5B in digital transformation pacts
Two pacts for the Census Bureau Transformation & Application Modernization effort are nearly ready to go as the agency keeps working on the other pair.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Edgewater acquires scientific computing provider
Edgewater is looking to enhance its posture for helping agencies in missions that involve converged technologies.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Air Force Research Laboratory permanently deletes $10B vehicle
The lab decides instead that its industry partnerships "are best served by using flexible, agile, and immediately available acquisition pathways.”
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
DHS kicks its network, cloud and cyber consolidation vehicle down the road
Industry will have an undetermined amount of extra time to gear up for this contract to centralize IT operations across the entire Homeland Security Department.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Operations, finance and tech leadership moves across the market
Also included in this listing: the Navy's Task Force 59 founder starts a new role and AT&T's chief operating officer takes up a board seat at a major federal IT provider.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
WT 360: Nextgov/FCW’s Christian Robles on OneGov, AI, Medicaid tech and Flock cameras
Christian Robles, who reports on technology policy and service delivery at Nextgov/FCW, jumps in to detail the federal government’s newest set of centralized artificial intelligence tech agreements and other key storylines.
- By Christian Robles and Ross Wilkers
Companies
General Dynamics names Nedzbala interim IT president as Gilliland departs
Amy Gilliland's nine-year run as GDIT president began with the integration of CSRA and included the rollout of a new tech strategy.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Blackstone's new defense tech company and more capital markets action to highlight
This roundup of transactions across the landscape also includes three venture rounds and two "SPAC" arrangements to take companies public.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
NASA makes 16 awards for $1.4B consolidated logistics pact
The space agency set up this blanket purchase agreement to move away from 10 separate center-level contracts.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Leidos wins $672M airport security equipment recompete
Leidos won the original iteration of this Transportation Security Administration contract in 2021.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Navy picks 7 for $828M business support recompete
The Navy uses this contract to acquire business management support services for its personnel, manpower and training initiatives.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Navy takes first step to craft NGEN network hardware recompete
The service branch wants to incorporate commercial supply chain practices into its IT product delivery function that must support a user base of 1 million personnel.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
ICE starts to explore AI, data strategy support contract
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's production environment now needs ongoing operations-and-maintenance support and continued enhancement.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Amentum wins $572M NORAD warning system contract
The North American Aerospace Defense Command uses this system to determine the nature of launches and attacks from adversaries.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Tetra Tech's new government leader and 3 CEO transitions to note
Tetra Tech has integrated federal technology work into its portfolio over the past several years.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
DHA embarks on health data management contract strategy
The Defense Health Agency wants industry's ideas for working with clinical, administrative, operational, financial, scheduling, encounter, assessment, document and analytics data.
- By Ross Wilkers