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What Peraton layoffs have meant for employees

Two of Peraton's 2025 notices name its environmental test and integration work in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a third names Peraton Balloon Operations in Palestine, Texas, our WARN filings tracker shows. Peraton's spokesperson said in 2025 that contract completion and re-competition dates turn on changes in administration, current government funding and shutdowns, FFXnow reported. A Peraton recruiter had told the same outlet that spring's federal contract cancellations hit the company, with new awards making up part of the loss.

Peraton was still doing the work at both NASA sites after the dates in its 2025 notices. At the Texas balloon base, Peraton warned of layoffs in stages while it worked to keep the contract, KETK reported, and NASA's facility page still listed Peraton as manager in September 2026. At Goddard, Peraton's contract ran past the effective dates on both of its 2025 notices, to September 30, 2026, in the federal contract data in HigherGov's listing. Neither record tells you what happened to any single job on those notices. If you're on a Peraton notice tied to a contract, the contract's status can change after the notice goes out, and a contract's end date and extensions are public in records like that one, so you can follow both.

When the work itself moved, in the 2021 Navy network handover to Leidos, many of the people moved with it by Leidos's own account, and Peraton had predicted beforehand that most would be kept, according to BoiseDev and Washington Technology. Leidos said it wanted the "tribal knowledge" of the people who'd worked the program. If your contract is going to another company, applying for a job with the incoming contractor is one option to weigh, and that handover is the record's example of a successor hiring many of the people already doing the work.

In October 2025 Peraton described a Family First program that let workers affected by contract changes apply for priority placement in other positions at the company, FFXnow reported, and that month the company was hiring for dozens of jobs in Fairfax County, according to its website. If you're on a notice tied to a contract change and Family First is still offered, applying early in the notice period leaves the most time for a placement to come through. If you're on a notice and weighing a placement against a job somewhere else, the two start dates are worth setting beside the notice's own date.

Peraton's notices haven't all carried its own name. The April 2021 notices came from Perspecta, which Peraton bought that May, and California's 2021-22 report lists that July's run as Perspecta Inc. dba Peraton Inc., while two 2025 Maryland notices and the Texas one went in under contract names such as Peraton Balloon Operations (NASA). If you're checking state WARN lists for your site, Perspecta and the contract's own name are worth trying beside Peraton's.

If you're on a Maryland notice, the state's labor department offers Rapid Response help for any layoff, from job search assistance to help with unemployment insurance claims and information on health coverage, according to its dislocation notices page. For the notices at Princess Anne, Woodlawn, Fort Meade, Reston and Camp Hill, nothing in the reporting we track, including WBOC and ABC27, names the contract involved or a company taking over the work. Peraton's notices since 2025 went to Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas, and you can check our Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas unemployment benefits pages, one for each of those states.

A sourced history of Peraton layoffs

• October 2026, Fort Meade, Maryland layoff notice

  Peraton's notice to Maryland, dated October 16, covers 26 employees at 9800 Savage Road with an effective date of January 5, 2027, and the state's 2026 log classes it as a layoff with no recall.

• January 2026, Woodlawn, Maryland layoff notice

  Peraton told Maryland on January 14 that 35 employees at 6201 Security Boulevard in Woodlawn would be laid off February 28, according to the state's 2026 log.

• December 2025, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania office layoff

  A WARN notice for Peraton Inc.'s corporate office at 1250 Camp Hill Bypass, reported by ABC27 in late October, set layoffs of 153 employees for December 13, 2025.

• December 2025, second Greenbelt notice on Goddard's test contract

  Peraton told Maryland on December 2 that 130 jobs on its Environmental Test and Integration Services III contract in Greenbelt would end January 31, 2026, our WARN filings tracker shows. The contract ran to September 30, 2026, according to HigherGov's contract record.

• October 2025, Reston headquarters notices during the shutdown

  Peraton issued notices on October 3, three days into the federal shutdown, to 92 employees at its Reston headquarters for potential layoffs starting December 5. A spokesperson called them precautionary, FFXnow reported.

• July 2025, NASA balloon facility in Palestine, Texas

  With its NASA balloon operations contract set to expire September 30, 81 jobs at the Palestine center were at risk and Peraton said layoffs could come in stages, KETK reported. NASA's balloon facility page still named Peraton as its manager in September 2026.

• April 2025, Princess Anne, Maryland missile-target team layoff

  Peraton notified Maryland on April 16 of layoffs for 49 employees in Princess Anne, effective April 30, WBOC reported. The team there had built missile targets for military defense tests, and a Goddard spokesperson said its work was unrelated to Peraton's sounding rocket work at Wallops.

• February 2025, Greenbelt ETIS III layoff notice

  Filed February 10 as Peraton's Environmental Test & Integration Services III, the notice told Maryland that 123 jobs in Greenbelt would end March 31, our WARN filings tracker shows.

• July 2021, California base notices under the Peraton name

  On July 6, Perspecta, doing business as Peraton, filed 23 notices with California covering 221 permanent layoffs at addresses from Camp Pendleton and Twentynine Palms to Port Hueneme, effective between June 30 and September 30, the state's 2021-22 WARN report shows.

• April 2021, Perspecta notices in Virginia and Idaho

  Shortly before Peraton bought it in May, Perspecta filed notices dated April 16 for 374 jobs in Norfolk and 107 in Chantilly, Virginia, and 302 in Meridian, Idaho, our WARN filings tracker shows. Perspecta said the whole Meridian site would close, and Peraton tied that closing to losing the Navy's NGEN contract to Leidos, BoiseDev reported.

What to do if you're laid off from Peraton

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Peraton's biggest hubs: Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Peraton's hub states run: Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.