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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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Companies

BigBear appoints McAleenan as chief executive

Kevin McAleenan becomes the artificial intelligence integrator's third CEO since its public listing in 2021.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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