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Following Northrop Grumman Deal, Peraton Realigns Operating Structure

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 4th, 2021

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Following Northrop Grumman Deal, Peraton Realigns Operating Structure

Tom Afferton, president of Peraton's Cyber Mission Sector. Photo: Peraton

Peraton on Thursday said it has aligned its organization around four new business sectors and added new members to its executive leadership team following the acquisition last week of the $2.3billion federal information technology services business of Northrop Grumman [NOC]. Space & Intelligence, one of the new business sectors, will be led by Roger Mason, who previously headed Peraton’s Space, Intelligence & Cyber sector. The new segment is focused on mission-specific technology capabilities for national security, civil space and intelligence…

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