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$35,479,294

Department of Transportation·Federal Aviation Administration

to PERATON GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS INC.

aerospaceexpiring · 73d· period of performance ends in 73 daysONGOING · MOD OF 2017 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2017-09-18·LATEST ACTION2026-04-09·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_0002_6920_DTFAWA13D00015_6920
Award description

IGF::OT::IGF FUNDING FOR OPTION PERIOD 3

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funding for FAA communications infrastructure operations and maintenance during option period 3 of an existing contract.

Sub-sectors
civil-aviation-infrastructurefaa-communicationsoption-period-funding
Why this matters

Sustains critical FAA ground-based communications systems essential for safe civil aviation operations and air traffic control.

Supply-chain signal

Indicates continued reliance on Peraton for FAA communications systems; suggests multi-year vendor lock-in for specialized aviation infrastructure.

U.S.–China competition angle

FAA communications infrastructure is strategically sensitive; domestic control of aviation command-and-control systems is a national security priority.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002165.

Period of performance
Start
2017-09-18
End
2026-07-31
Status
expiring · 73din 73 days
Sources

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