Politico
Oriana Pawlyk
20 August 2026
One person knowledgeable about the situation said that Virginia-based Peraton was “not meeting the moment.”
Federal Aviation Administration officials are raising concerns about the performance of a contractor overseeing the Trump administration’s overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system — unhappiness that could result in scaling back the company’s role, three people familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
The friction comes just eight months after Peraton, a Herndon, Virginia-based contractor with little prior experience working with the FAA, won a $1.5 billion contract to oversee the work, which was spurred in part by the deadly January 2025 midair crash over Washington. The company’s role is to lead coordination on the modernization effort...
