Peraton Keeps Air Force Award Despite L3’s Conflict Protest

L3Harris Technologies Inc. didn’t show that the US Air Force’s award of a software development contract to Peraton Inc. was tainted by an impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest, the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

The Air Force reasonably concluded that Peraton wouldn’t be required under the Mission System Support 2 contract to review any of its work under a separate contract for hardware and software prototypes, the Government Accountability Office said.

That separate contract is the Expert Scientific and Analytical Support 2 contract. Peraton became the ESAS-2 contractor after acquiring Perspecta Inc. in 2021, the GAO said. ...