Peraton
Major defense and intelligence IT services contractor formed in 2017 by Veritas Capital. Grew rapidly through acquisitions of Perspecta (2021) and Northrop Grumman's IT services business, creating one of the largest private defense IT firms. Operates NASA ground systems, IC community IT infrastructure, NOAA satellite data processing, and Space Force mission support networks. Pure services contractor with deep classified work portfolio -- no hardware manufacturing. Frequently appears in USASpending data across NASA, DoD, and intelligence community contracts.
FINANCIAL HEALTH
SECTOR POSITION
RECENT COVERAGE
| Date | Source | Headline |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2026 | BusinessWire — Satellite/Space | Peraton Appoints Justin R. Ciaccio as President of National Aerospace Solutions Sector |
REGISTRY DATA
Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Peraton corporate homepage — confirms national-security contractor (defense, cyber, space). Operates NASA NEN/SN ground-station services.
METHODOLOGY
Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.
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