Is it known whether a closed simply-connected manifold of non-negative curvature admits positive Ricci? It is discussed in this question whether a simply-connected closed Riemannian manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature admits positive Ricci curvature, and the answer appears to be "no, there are counter-examples and known obstructions".
My question is this: are there any known examples of closed, simply-connected manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature that do not admit positive Ricci curvature? Are there known obstructions?
 A: No there are no such examples known. Most known examples of manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature come from biquotients or cohomogeneity one manifolds. If these are simply connected they are known to admit metrics of positive Ricci curvature by a result of  Schwachhoefer and  Tuschmann. Also  by a result of Aubin mentined in the thread you referenced a manifold of nonnegative Ricci curvature with Ricci positive somewhere admit positive Ricci everywhere. In the simply connected case the only known obstruction to positive Ricci is the scalar curvature one (also mentioned in that thread). If a closed spin manifold has nonvanishing $\hat A$ genus then it does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature and it particular also doesn't admit a metric  of positive Ricci curvature. But simply connected manifolds of nonnegetaive sectional curvature have scalar curvature positive somewhere (else they'd be flat and not simply connected). Their scalar curvature is also nonnegative. This implies that the $\hat A$ is zero in the spin case.
A: No. Every simply connected compact manifold of nonnegative sectional curvature admits positive Ricci curvature. This has been proven by Boehm--Wilking: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00039-007-0617-8
Theorem A. Let $(M^n,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with finite fundamental group and nonnegative sectional curvature. Then $M^n$ admits a metric with positive Ricci curvature.
