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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
Assured Information Security wins $300M Air Force recompete
The company will continue its support of SecureView, a government-wide standard for enabling remote network access at multiple levels.
- By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts
WT 360: The ties between tech and talent in the public sector
Jill Jones and Yoko Jolly, executives at CrossVue, discuss the connections between technology and transformation efforts across government with respect to their human capital initiatives.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Transformation and strategy leadership moves across the market
One high-profile defense tech startup and a second, much larger player expand the roles for some on their executive teams.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
CACI's CEO weighs in on efficiency and acquisition
In talking with Wall Street, John Mengucci looked to provide a bigger picture for what he would like to see the DOGE efficiency group look at beyond just protest numbers going down.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Alpha Omega acquires a pair
The nine-year-old company using these additions to grow its national security division and stand up a new health vertical.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Treasury chooses 10 for $20B cyber support pact
Appropriately dubbed PROTECTS, this blanket purchase agreement aims to set up an enterprise approach for cybersecurity across the Treasury Department.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Redwire pushes further across defense with $925M Edge Autonomy acquisition
In explaining the move to Wall Street, Redwire's chief executive Pete Cannito cites connectivity between space assets and drones closer to Earth's surface as a growth opportunity for the company.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
QinetiQ's US arm appoints Vecchiolla as CEO
Tom Vecchiolla now will lead the subsidiary's work to execute the strategy of its parent company that centers around the AUKUS security partnership.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Accenture Federal wins $3.5B Energy IT recompete
The so-called CBOSS blanket purchase agreement is the Energy Department's main mechanism for acquiring IT support services.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Tech, operations and growth leadership moves across the market
One chief growth officer retirement and another CGO hire feature, both at Top 100 companies.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Stoke Space collects $260M in Series C capital
The company started in 2020 and has approval from Space Force to bid for future launches of small payloads.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
BigBear appoints McAleenan as chief executive
Kevin McAleenan becomes the artificial intelligence integrator's third CEO since its public listing in 2021.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
SEEQC closes $30M investment round
Booz Allen Hamilton’s venture capital arm and NordicNinja led the round for SEEQC, which started in 2019 with the idea of integrating classical and quantum computing techniques.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Loft Orbital captures $170M in Series C investments
The company has fetched $300 million in external capital since it opened for business in 2017 with the idea of integrating and operating customer payloads in its satellites.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Overland AI closes $32M Series A round
Byron Boots and Stephanie Bonk started the company in 2022 to design technology that helps ground vehicles operate in complex environments and for one person to control fleets of them.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Crimson Phoenix acquires geospatial tech provider
The Godspeed Capital-backed company is looking to grow its lineup of artificial intelligence-powered data labeling tools for use by intelligence agencies.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Oddball gets new private equity backer
Started in 2016, Oddball works with federal agencies on tech design and deployment efforts to aid in how they deliver citizen services.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
NASA awards $1.1B electrical, electronic engineering recompete
Iteration number four of this contract supports work on the development and validation of new technologies for space and science missions.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Consolidated Safety Services acquires satellite data services provider
CSS wants to further enable remote sensing data collection efforts by agencies that face health, defense and environmental challenges
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
A dozen corporate leadership moves to start 2025
Our first roundup of executive movement in this New Year covers growth, technology, operations and sales
- By Ross Wilkers