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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

Serco hires Supplee to lead North American arm

Barbara Supplee will now lead Serco North America's strategy centered around areas like autonomy and modernization, among others.

Contracts

SSA launches IT services contract recompete

Self-service and artificial intelligence technologies are a priority area for the Social Security Administration in this iteration of the contract that counts CGI Federal, Leidos and Peraton as primes.

Contracts

Pentagon unveils first of two solicitations for its next big cloud contract

The hyperscalers can now start working on proposals for their portion of the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability recompete, while a second contract is in-the-works to cover everything else.

Companies

How Steampunk's design intelligence focus stood out to MetroStar

This framework for building digital and technical offerings for federal agencies will greatly shape the combined company's future, MetroStar Systems CEO Ali Mouchehri tells us.

Companies

A subset of the tech talent supply crunch to watch out for

Forward-deployed engineers are the ones who consistently translate artificial intelligence deployments into documented results and not enough of them are senior enough, a new study says.

Companies

How Rocketdyne is re-entering the space sector as a standalone entity

The six-decade-old space propulsion systems maker brought its old name back and is ramping up to fulfill demand for its products, as a partner for Rocketdyne's majority owner tells us.

Companies

Supply chain, operations and health leadership moves across the market

Plus an engineering and design firm promotes a new business line executive for its federal portfolio.

Companies

ASRC Federal wins $495M background check support recompete

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency sticks with the incumbent for this iteration of the program, which emphasizes DCSA's transition to a continuous vetting approach.

Companies

Castelion, Muon Space complete Series C funding rounds

Both startups are using their newfound capital to accelerate production of their hypersonic weapons and satellites.

Companies

Vantor appoints Cocos to lead US government biz

Vantor’s strategy centers around providing a broad set of spatial intelligence offerings that are tied to its Earth imagery satellites.

Contracts

Army, DHA tee up on-ramps for $11B in tech services contracts

The Army has one opportunity ready for industry to pursue, while the Defense Health Agency has a message for 8(a) companies about an upcoming window.

Companies

United Launch Alliance's new CEO and more leadership moves across the market

Key promotions and hires in finance, growth and technology also feature in this listing.

Contracts

Peraton wins $953M DISA comms infrastructure recompete

The Defense Information Systems Agency is emphasizing on-demand communications capabilities for this iteration of the program.

Contracts

Air Force awards 24 places on $920M aircraft equipment modernization contract

The Next Generation Aerospace Ground Equipment contract's scope covers design, development, integration and testing work.

Contracts

Navy chooses 29 for $400M operational exercise support contract

The Navy set up the contract to hire a pool of companies that can help design and build out exercises that primarily focus on cyberspace operations.

Contracts

CISA contemplates whether to hire security software buying help

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a sources sought notice that describes its desire to bring in a company that can help manage enterprise license and materials purchases.

Companies

L3Harris promotes Mehta to CEO in abrupt leadership change

Chris Kubasik, L3Harris’ CEO since June 2021, has left the company following a code of conduct investigation.

Companies

Noblis extends space portfolio with acquisition

FTS International brings a suite of space engineering and orbital analysis services to Noblis.

Contracts

Air Force leans on ESOP legislation to sole-source $992M contract

This contract is part of a Defense Department pilot program that allows for certain follow-on awards to stay with the incumbent, if they are fully-employee owned.

Contracts

FAA brings in AT&T for network modernization program

The Federal Aviation Administration is developing a potential 15-year contract with AT&T to support the overhaul of the air traffic control system.