Peraton has won a potential 10-year, $953 million contract to continue supplying communications infrastructure services to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), a deal the agency described as the third iteration of its Capacity Services Communications program (CSC III).
Contract scope and value
DISA posted an award notice saying Peraton’s contract carries a ceiling of $953 million and may run for up to ten years — an initial five-year base period followed by up to five individual option years. The agency received three proposals for CSC III, according to the award notice. An editor’s note attached to the award posting says DISA updated its notice after publication to specify the $953 million contract ceiling.
Operational emphasis: on-demand communications and hybrid cloud
Solicitation documents from February make clear that CSC III emphasizes on-demand communications capabilities. DISA framed the requirement so it can "adjust its requirements based on mission needs instead of a fixed equipment set," signaling a shift toward capability flexibility across data centers and hybrid cloud computing environments rather than a locked hardware baseline.
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End the scrambleWhat Peraton will deliver
Under the contract, Peraton is responsible for providing a layered set of technologies and services across DISA and non-DISA sites worldwide. The listed deliverables include hardware; operating software; storage; network management tools and software; automation tools and software; and technical services. The scope spans physical and software elements intended to support data centers and hybrid cloud operations.
Peraton’s program lineage and recent history
Peraton inherited the CSC program in 2021 when it combined with Perspecta. Perspecta, in turn, purchased longtime incumbent Knight Point Systems in 2019. Knight Point had won the first iteration of the CSC contract in 2011 and secured the recompete in 2018. DISA has obligated $573 million in task order volume against the current contract ahead of its April 2027 sunset, according to GovTribe data cited by the award notice.
What this means for technologists, procurement leaders, and DISA operators
- Technologists and security teams: Expect a focus on flexible, on-demand provisioning across hybrid cloud and data center environments and a stack that mixes hardware, operating software, storage and automation tools — all supplied under a single prime contract.
- Procurement leaders and program managers: The contract’s structure — five-year base plus up to five option years and a $953 million ceiling — creates a long-term vehicle for task orders; DISA’s prior obligations of $573 million ahead of the current contract’s April 2027 sunset show active tasking under the program.
- DISA mission operators and warfighters: The solicitation’s emphasis on adjusting requirements to mission needs rather than a fixed equipment set is designed to give operators access to scalable communications capability as operational demands evolve.
The award establishes Peraton as the prime for CSC III at a time when DISA explicitly favors on-demand capability over fixed equipment baselines. The immediate milestones to watch will be how task orders are issued against the new ceiling and how quickly the program translates the solicitation’s flexibility into operational deliveries during the five-year base period and any exercised options. The award notice and GovTribe obligation figures provide a clear baseline: $573 million already obligated under the predecessor vehicle and a $953 million ceiling for the new potential decade-long contract.
Source: Defense One — DISA awards Peraton $953M communications infrastructure contract
