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EO & GEOINT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-07-28

Peraton

Active EO & GEOINT Private HQ: Herndon, Virginia Founded 2017

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.

49.2
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#44 of 47
Peer Rank
Defense cohort
Total Launches
No flights tracked
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

49.2
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#44 of 47
Peer groupDefense
Data coverage82%
Tracked gov contracts$592.6M across 50 awards

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital
$592.6M lifetime tracked obligations across 50 awards — top agency Department of Defense ($511.6M) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Feb 19, 2021 Contract Award $79.7M General Services Administration / Federal Acquisition Service, PERATON TECHNOLOGY SERVICES INC. Medium

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorEO & GEOINT
Rank within sector#44 of 47
Tracked peers47

RECENT COVERAGE

REGISTRY DATA

Legal namePeraton Inc.
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersHerndon, Virginia
CountryUS
Founded2017
CEOStu Shea
ParentVeritas Capital
AliasesPeraton, PERATON, PERATON INC., Peraton Inc, Perspecta (legacy)
SubsidiariesPerspecta (acquired 2021), Northrop Grumman IT services (acquired 2021)
Key programsNASA ground systems operations, IC community IT infrastructure, NOAA satellite ground systems, DoD cybersecurity
Gov customersNASA, DoD, IC community, NOAA, Space Force
IPO statusPrivate — owned by Veritas Capital

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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