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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
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
Companies
Odyssey promotes Kasberg to chief executive
The 28-year-old company is moving into a new phase of its strategy and vision.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Anduril acquires radar, command-and-control businesses
Software is also part of the equation for this move by Anduril, which is looking to further scale up its production efforts.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Xpect acquires digital media intake tool provider
The NewSpring-backed Xpect also is looking to further shore up its digital transformation offerings.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
OPM awards $149M cyber, network operations support contract
The Office of Personnel Management wants to more heavily lean on cloud-based technologies and a zero trust approach.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Eutelsat-OneWeb government arm promotes Canning to CEO
The subsidiary is looking to expand the availability of its low-Earth and geostationary orbit networks.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
ICF acquires Applied Energy group as grid demand spikes
This purchase is taking place amid a "once-in-a-lifetime transition" to a new distributed energy landscape, as ICF's chief executive John Wasson tells us.
- By Ross Wilkers