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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.
Science & Tech

NASA previews hydrosphere research support recompete

The space agency is searching for a small business that can help create and apply technologies for addressing issues related to Earth's natural resources.

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Arlington Capital reveals its new defense tech company

The same investment firm that is selling BlueHalo to AeroVironment is now ready to showcase GRVTY, a specialist in geospatial and signals intelligence.

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Anduril wins $642M Marines counter-drone tech contract

The service branch wants to cover the entire kill chain and use signature disruption as its means for countering adversaries' unmanned aircraft.

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Growth and space leadership moves across the market

Our periodic summary of executive movement begins with one of the market's most notable private equity names adding to its braintrust.

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Epirus collects $250M in Series D capital to scale up production

The seven-year-old startup is pushing to further develop and make more of its Leonidas system, which works to fire lasers and other pulses at adversaries' drones.

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How the CEOs of Booz Allen, L3Harris view DOGE's vision

In talking with investors, both chief executives highlight speed and help to the customer as big-picture goals they want to see the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency realize.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Eutelsat-OneWeb government arm promotes Canning to CEO

The subsidiary is looking to expand the availability of its low-Earth and geostationary orbit networks.

Commercial

Millennium Space Systems hires Gingiss as chief executive

Owned by Boeing since 2018, the small satellite maker is entering the next phase of its production ramp-up and market expansion push.

Science & Tech

Growth and strategy leadership moves across the market

A pair of appointments to boards of directors also feature a high-profile consulting firm and a global defense giant.

Defense

Air Force starts the bidding for $750M CENTCOM support contract

The service branch plans to award approximately 20 positions on the vehicle that will be open to more Defense Department buyers than just Central Command.

Science & Tech

FAA awards two more seats on engineering recompete

The Federal Aviation Administration moves ahead on its selections for iteration number two of its Air Traffic Engineering and Program Support contract.

Defense

Lockheed details executive transitions in its enterprise, engineering functions

The defense giant's famed Skunk Works advanced development division is also getting a new leader.

Science & Tech

FAA chooses 4 for $1.4B air traffic control support contract

Each awardee is assigned certain geographic areas and each award has a different ceiling value.

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Inversion closes $44M Series A round

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm is one of a handful of investors in this company looking to further enable autonomous delivery and re-entry from space.

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Assertive Professionals wins $127M MDA professional services contract

The Missile Defense Agency made this award as part of its family of contracts known as TEAMS.

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Launch, the Moon and satellites mark the week in space investments

Each of these companies are in varying stages of maturity as a business, but all have high-profile backers behind them.