National Aeronautics and Space Administration award to PERATON INC.: OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT OF THE NASA BALLOON FACI…

usaspending · score 43 · 158.4 miAustin branch · 55.4 mi
Project Size
$163.5M
Stage
Contract awarded
Distance
158.4 mi
Posted
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Rationale

The NASA Balloon Facility award to Peraton is a $163M federal operations contract covering launch infrastructure, flight operations, and payload-recovery support across multiple field sites in Texas. The scope centers on high-altitude balloon launches, which require secure staging areas for payloads (some carrying sensitive scientific instruments), controlled-access hangars, and remote recovery zones spread across hundreds of miles of open range. Mobile surveillance towers fit the dispersed-site model better than fixed perimeter, and vehicle monitoring serves the recovery-convoy logistics during multi-day retrieval operations. The award appears in USAspending records without a posted date, suggesting it is either a renewal of an existing NASA contract or a recent award not yet reflected in public solicitation archives. Peraton's role as prime contractor means security procurement likely flows through their facilities and operations subcontracts rather than direct NASA channels. The operational footprint is live now, not mobilizing, which shifts the window from pre-budget to replacement-cycle or scope-expansion. Houston branch sits 158 miles from the nominal facility centroid, well inside the 300-mile coverage radius. No warm Zedcor customer operates nearby. The recommended first move is identifying Peraton's facility-security or site-operations manager for the Texas balloon program (not the federal contracting officer) and proposing a walk-through of current payload-staging security and recovery-zone monitoring, framed as mobile-tower supplementation rather than wholesale replacement of existing systems.

Project Facts

Owner
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationFEDERAL AGENCY
Prime Contractor
PERATON INC.
Project Size
$163.5M
Estimated Towers
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Industry
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Stage
awarded
Timing
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Location
TX31.0545, -97.5635
Permit
Not disclosed (federal contract)
Lot Size
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Award details (usaspending)

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Recipient
PERATON INC.
Awarding agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Award ID
80GSFC22CA019
Place of perf.
TX

Activity timeline

  • Ranked · score 43
    Saw the Peraton NASA Balloon Facility award. Houston branch covers the Texas launch sites at 158 miles. Worth a brief call on mobile-tower options for payload staging or recovery-zone monitoring?
    2026-05-02 05:40 · projects
  • Verified
    verified on 2 of 4 — null-coordinate project, geographic checks skipped
    2026-05-02 05:40 · projects
  • Project ingested
    Source: usaspending
    2026-04-29 00:04 · projects