# Peraton to acquire satellite communication equipment for AFRICOM

- Link: https://www.military.africa/2020/03/peraton-to-acquire-satellite-communication-equipment-for-africom/
- Published: 2020-03-03T09:14:00+01:00
- Author: Ekene Lionel

Peraton has secured a five year contract to provide satellite communications worth
$219 million for U.S. Africa Command the company announced on March 3.

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In the contract, Peraton will be tasked to immediately procure commercial-grade 
of the shelf satellite services to meet the needs of AFRICOM and its mission partners
in the region. The contract explains that Peraton will “provide mission partners,
operating in the AFRICOM area of responsibility, with rapid acquisition of commercial
satellite services to meet enduring and emerging requirements”.

Peraton is expected to make use of communications services including direct Ku-band
connectivity to the command Headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, by leveraging Satcom
capacities from different satellite fleet operators.

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Peraton provides innovative, reliable solutions to the nation’s most sensitive and
mission-critical programs and systems

This particular business was first awarded to Immarsat in June 2019, but the contract
was revoked after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was legally petitioned.

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“As an independent service integrator, Peraton takes a neutral, vendor-agnostic 
approach to leverage the best technologies available from across the entire commercial
satellite industry,” said David Myers, president of Peraton Communications sector,
in a statement.

“As a result, customers like AFRICOM are assured a solution tailored to prioritize
consistent mission performance, without being dependent on any particular satellite
fleet or vendor assets.”

Peraton has a longstanding relationship with AFRICOM for more than ten years, acting
as a consultative mission partner to the command for more than 10 years and currently
supporting it through other task orders by providing services that include designing
and executing comprehensive end-to-end controlled satellite solutions for an extensive
spectrum of applications, including tactical ground deployments, airborne ISR connectivity,
and multi-domain concentrated communications says the company leadership.

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The contract was awarded via a blanket purchase agreement issued by Air Force Space
Command in coordination with the Defense Information Systems Agency.

The task order is the first of its kind to be awarded under the Future Commercial
SATCOM Acquisition program (FCSA).

Also, “the services will be supported by Peraton’s 24×7 Network Operations Center(
NOC), and by a dedicated team of satellite service engineers and professionals”,
the document quotes.

Peraton also supports the command under other FCSA task orders and through separate
contract vehicles and industry partners.

Peraton also offers digital forensics, threat and vulnerability assessments, and
security operations centres, while serving cyber, defence, homeland security, space,
intelligence, and communications markets worldwide.

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