Arcfield

Arcfield

Arcfield was formed in 2021 when Veritas Capital carved the space, cyber, and mission-engineering segments out of Peraton — itself a roll-up of former Harris, Northrop Grumman, and Perspecta assets — to create a standalone chassis focused exclusively on the intelligence community and Department of Defense space enterprise. The move separated Peraton's sprawling federal IT portfolio from the higher-margin, clearance-intensive technical work that underpins signals intelligence, geospatial collection, and orbital-warfare programs. Arcfield's contract base spans satellite ground-systems integration, signals-intelligence processing, electronic-warfare engineering, and full-spectrum cyber operations. The firm operates almost entirely inside Special Access Programs and compartmented task orders, making its win-loss ratios and backlog opaque. Observable task orders include work on next-generation overhead persistent infrared sensor exploitation, offensive cyber tooling, and protected tactical satellite communications. Veritas seeded Arcfield with seasoned NASA and National Reconnaissance Office program managers — a deliberate choice that tilted the firm toward space-domain resilience and away from conventional defense IT sustainment. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia with a significant presence in Colorado Springs and Albuquerque, Arcfield draws talent from the same cleared engineering pools as Aerospace Corporation, MITRE's national-security division, and KBR's space-facing units. The firm does not advertise headcount, but positions it has publicly listed over the last two years cluster around Colorado, New Mexico, and Northern Virginia — all locations tied to Space Force, NRO, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Veritas's typical holding period and the carve-out's 2021 vintage suggest the portfolio company entered its middle innings, though no exit process has been reported. Arcfield's structure — a private-equity-backed pure-play national-security engineering firm with no significant unclassified commercial revenue — sets it apart from diversified defense primes and from the government-services holding companies that blend cleared IT with advisory work. Every revenue dollar traces to a classified end customer, making Arcfield's financial performance a direct proxy for US space and cyber intelligence spending velocity.