The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded Peraton a potential five-year $578 million contract to provide logistics support for the agency’s thousands of pieces of security equipment used at airports nationwide.
Leidos [LDOS] was the incumbent contractor. Boeing [BA] and Germany’s Siemens in years past have provided integrated logistics support to TSA for transportation screening equipment.
“We’re proud to have once again been called upon to assist the Department of Homeland Security in its mission of safeguarding the nation, and we eagerly accept the high standards and accountability required by TSA,” Stu Shea, CEO of Peraton, said in a statement on Thursday. Shea previously was the chief operating officer of Leidos.
Peraton, based in Northern Virginia, supports customers in the space, intelligence, defense and homeland security markets. The company is the former government services business of Harris Corp. [HRS] that was sold to the private equity firm Veritas Capital earlier this year.