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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
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Noblis extends space portfolio with acquisition
FTS International brings a suite of space engineering and orbital analysis services to Noblis.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers
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.
- By Ross Wilkers