Peraton

Peraton Inc. is a privately held American national security and technology company formed in 2017. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Its service areas include space, intelligence, cyber, defense, homeland security, citizen security, and health. The company's applied research organization, Peraton Labs, is sited in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

As of 2021 the company had more than 150 offices across the United States. Peraton then employed over 5,000 people in the D.C. area and approximately 18,000 worldwide.

Peraton says its name is "a construct of the prefix per, which means thoroughly, and the word imperative, reflecting the importance of its customers' missions".

History
Peraton was established and has grown due to acquisitions made by New York-based private-equity firm Veritas Capital. In 2017, Veritas acquired Harris Corporation's government IT services division and renamed it Peraton. In 2019, Peraton acquired Solers, Inc.; the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. In 2021, Veritas acquired the federal IT and mission support business of Northrop Grumman for $3.4 billion. In May 2021, Perspecta (a 2018 merger of DXC Technology's U.S. public sector spin-off, Vencore, Inc., and KeyPoint Government Solutions), was acquired by Veritas for $7.1 billion and placed under Peraton.

Peraton was awarded a $2.69 billion contract by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concerning Data Center and Cloud Optimization Support Services. Peraton also captured a $1B contract from the Pentagon to counter "misinformation".