Ross Wilkers

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Staff Reporter at Washington Technology

Host at Project 38: The future of federal contracting

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OpenAI awarded $200M DOD prototype contract

1 week ago | washingtontechnology.com | Ross Wilkers

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to continue developing artificial intelligence prototypes for the Defense Department. The one-year other transaction agreement, announced Tuesday, will focus on how what the company calls “frontier AI” can aid in DOD’s administrative operations, health care for soldiers and families, cyber operations and the management of program and acquisition data.
OpenAI awarded $200M DOD prototype contract

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Ross Wilkers

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to continue developing artificial intelligence prototypes for the Defense Department. The one-year other transaction agreement, announced Tuesday, will focus on how what the company calls “frontier AI” can aid in DOD’s administrative operations, health care for soldiers and families, cyber operations and the management of program and acquisition data.
OpenAI awarded $200M DOD prototype contract

1 week ago | buff.ly | Ross Wilkers

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to continue developing artificial intelligence prototypes for the Defense Department. The one-year other transaction agreement, announced Tuesday, will focus on how what the company calls “frontier AI” can aid in DOD’s administrative operations, health care for soldiers and families, cyber operations and the management of program and acquisition data.
Lockheed hires former Pentagon AI lead as tech chief

1 week ago | washingtontechnology.com | Ross Wilkers

Lockheed Martin has hired a new chief technology officer in Craig Martell, formerly the Defense Department’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer from 2022 to 2024. Martell will start at the company on Monday and report to John Clark, who has been senior vice president for technology and strategic innovation since January.
ODRG secures venture backing for national security, geospatial tech strategy

1 week ago | washingtontechnology.com | Ross Wilkers

Organizational Development Resource Group, a technology services company focused on national security and geospatial customers, has secured a $3 million investment from a growth capital fund geared toward entrepreneurs it views as underrepresented. Advantage Capital, a venture investment firm and small business lender, set up its “Empower the Change Fund” in 2022 to exclusively provide capital to minority-owned businesses with the goal of deploying $200 million over multiple years.
Agriculture reopens cloud integration pacts for bids

1 week ago | washingtontechnology.com | Ross Wilkers

The Agriculture Department is now ready to start adding more companies for the integration and development portion of Stratus, a centralized procurement for driving cloud computing adoption across the entire enterprise. In the spring of 2024, Agriculture chose 37 companies for a set of 10-year basic ordering agreements under the second pool of Stratus and geared those awards largely to technology system integrators. Agriculture will accept quotes for the Stratus Pool 2 on-ramp through July 11.
General Dynamics wins $580M security tech system recompete

1 week ago | washingtontechnology.com | Ross Wilkers

General Dynamics has won a potential five-year, $580 million task order to continue its role in helping the Army operate a complex security technology system for protecting personnel and sites around the world. The Integrated Base Defense and Force Protection Family of Systems order covers services such as training, contractor logistics, operations, sustainment and procurement of materials for equipment.
WT 360: Our first takeaways from the 2025 Top 100 with more to follow

1 week ago | washingtontechnology.com | Nick Wakeman |Ross Wilkers

Skip to Content Log In Email Address Password Forgot your password? Not a member? Sign up now! Edition number 32 of the Washington Technology Top 100 rankings is now live for all to use in researching the federal market's largest technology and services contractors, and mapping the numbers to the industry’s macrotrends.
Tech, finance and operations leadership moves across the market

2 weeks ago | washingtontechnology.com | Ross Wilkers

Alpha OmegaRajiv Gidadhubli has taken up the role of chief artificial intelligence transformation officer following the January acquisition of Micro Solutions, where he was its chief transformation officer. Gidadhubli now oversees Alpha Omega’s enterprise AI strategy for the market and brings 34 years of experience to the role. Prior to Micro Solutions, he worked as a vice president of consulting at CGI Federal and led a 500-person team focused on enterprise resource planning systems.
Tech, finance and operations leadership moves across the market

2 weeks ago | finance.einnews.com | Ross Wilkers

Sean Ricker started as interim chief financial officer on June 6 following Julie Peffer’s departure from the artificial intelligence integrator after three years as its CFO. During Peffer’s tenure, BigBear combined with Pangiam and undertook several efforts to bolster its balance sheet including capital fundraising and debt restructuring. Ricker joined BigBear shortly after its public listing in 2021 and most recently worked as chief accounting officer.

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7 Jun 25

The loser mentality, i.e. assumption of failure, that a very vocal section US soccer fans have with following the men's national team is just strange to me. Winning is impossible with that mentality. #USMNT

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5 Jun 25

For Coco and Lois both... the acid test nears. #RolandGarros

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4 Jun 25

Another one of her match points that takes an entire nation with it. #RolandGarros