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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
DOGE now has approval authority for defense IT, consulting contracts
A new memo from the Defense Department's acquisition leader spells out what agencies and components have to inform the Department of Government Efficiency before proceeding on certain contracts.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
GSA adds third set of companies to consulting contract review
The General Services Administration is asking six “traditional strategy consulting firms” for much of the same information it has previously asked of other companies: a breakdown of their federal businesses and ideas for savings.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
CMS extends its primary data-related research contract
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has pushed back the proposal due date for the recompete more than once.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
State Department awards $5B global stability support contract
The GLOBALCAP contract covers a wide range of services across areas such as training and mentoring, logistics and equipment support.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
SAIC books $928M Air Force tech prototyping job
Air Force officials sought a technology integrator to work with an organization responsible for helping the military bring in solutions from the intelligence community.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Veterans Affairs starts to craft financial system recompete
The Veterans Affairs Department is seeking a contractor that can help develop and configure new deployments on an incremental basis.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Parsons, IBM form air traffic control modernization pursuit team
The Federal Aviation Administration is eyeing 2028 to complete its replacement of the National Airspace System's underlying infrastructure.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
CBP seeks analytics tech to aid digital forensics
The Customs and Border Protection agency wants to better identify patterns and connections that help create leads in investigations.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Where GSA sees resellers fitting into its unified procurement strategy
One of the General Services Administration's senior IT officials is telling industry that the agency essentially wants OneGov to create a role reversal of who the prime contractor is.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
GSA identifies 131 more small businesses for OASIS+ awards
The General Services Administration made a new round of "apparent" selections across all five small business tracks of the professional services vehicle.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
DHS unveils first draft of $3B mobility recompete
The Homeland Security Department uses this contract for managed services to aid in how it buys commercially-available wireless devices.
- By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts
WT 360: The 2025 Top 100 also is a roadmap for next year and beyond
Nick and Ross carry on their 2025 Top 100 conversation by highlighting some key tension points government and industry are sorting through five months into the Trump administration and what that foreshadows about the future.
- By Nick Wakeman and Ross Wilkers
Companies
Growth and operations leadership moves across the market
The newest edition of our regular executive movement digest also features a former CISA official's new role and a pair of tech-focused hires by one of the market's largest companies.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
Air Force chooses joint venture for $430M technical data contract
The service branch is seeking help in functions such as management, updates, conversion, distribution and library services.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
GSA mulls expansion plan for OASIS+ professional services vehicle
For phase two of the program, the General Services Administration wants to add five more service domains on top of the eight already active.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Raft acquires data fusion tech developer
The buyer is looking to bolster the capabilities of its agentic artificial intelligence tools for use by military operators.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Acclaim Technical Services promotes Popelier to CEO
The 21-year market veteran has worked as acting chief executive since January and was a business unit general manager before that.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Muon Space closes Series B round at $146M
The four-year-old small satellite maker has more financial resources for the development of its Earth intelligence gathering platform and to acquire another company.
- By Ross Wilkers
Contracts
OpenAI awarded $200M DOD prototype contract
The Defense Department is eyeing administrative operations, health care and cyber as areas with potential use cases for the company's technology.
- By Ross Wilkers
Companies
Lockheed hires former Pentagon AI lead as tech chief
Craig Martell led the development and rollout of a strategy for the Defense Department to adopt more artificial intelligence tools.
- By Ross Wilkers