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Arcfield
Arcfield specializes in systems engineering and integration, modeling, simulation, and analysis, and cybersecurity for defense and intelligence sectors.
Arcfield
Arcfield specializes in systems engineering and integration, modeling, simulation, and analysis, and cybersecurity for defense and intelligence sectors. The company provides services such as space and launch support, test range support, and cross-domain cyber solutions. Arcfield serves government customers with national security missions, offering engineering, IT, and C5ISR capabilities.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who formed Arcfield and why does it operate as a separate entity from Peraton?
Arcfield was created in 2021 when Veritas Capital separated the space, cyber, and mission-engineering businesses from Peraton. The carve-out was designed to isolate high-margin, clearance-intensive intelligence-community work from Peraton's broader federal IT and enterprise-services portfolio, giving Arcfield a structurally purer exposure to classified space and cyber spending (per public record).
What specific capabilities does Arcfield bring to classified space programs?
Arcfield's task orders concentrate on satellite ground-systems integration, signals-intelligence exploitation, electronic-warfare engineering, and offensive cyber operations. Observable work includes next-generation overhead persistent infrared sensor exploitation, protected tactical satellite communications engineering, and cyber tooling development, all delivered inside the US intelligence community's compartmented program structure.
How does Arcfield's ownership structure affect its ability to win classified contracts?
Veritas Capital's sponsorship imposes no structural barrier to classified work; Arcfield operates under standard Special Access Program and Sensitive Compartmented Information facility clearances and recruits from the same cleared talent pools as Aerospace Corporation and MITRE. The private-equity backing provides acquisition capital but does not alter the firm's posture as a pure-play cleared engineering provider.
Where is Arcfield's talent concentrated geographically?
Arcfield's public job listings over the last two years cluster in Chantilly, Virginia, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Albuquerque, New Mexico — all locations serving the National Reconnaissance Office, US Space Force, and Air Force Research Laboratory. The firm does not publicly report total headcount.
Does Arcfield have any unclassified or commercial revenue streams?
No. Arcfield's revenue base traces almost entirely to classified end-customers inside the US intelligence community and Department of Defense space enterprise. The absence of a material unclassified commercial business is the firm's central structural differentiator from diversified defense primes.
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