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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.