Peraton, a national security defense contractor, is opening an office in Tech Port’s Capital Factory that will focus on collaboration with federal agencies, industry, academia and San Antonio’s tech sector.
It will be the fourth cybersecurity firm to locate at Port San Antonio since last fall, the latest illustration of San Antonio’s growing profile in the nation’s cybersecurity sector. The move also furthers the Port’s goal of creating a synergistic innovation campus that connects major employers with nimble, ambitious startups.
Peraton, which employs 18,000 across the globe, and 900 in Texas, already has a presence in San Antonio. Several hundred already work out of the Port, part of a $2 billion contract to consolidate and integrate the Defense Health Agency’s Military Health System, which provides health care to the nation’s active duty and veteran populations.
The company also partners with UTSA’s National Security Collaboration Center on practical and applied research around national security challenges, including cyber and information operations.
“Peraton is thrilled to be a member of the San Antonio tech community where we can bring our experience as a mission capability integrator and long-time mission partner to further support the U.S. Air Force and the Intelligence Community,” said Tom Afferton, president of Peraton’s Cyber Mission sector, in a statement.
Peraton will join IntelliGenesis, a Maryland-based cybersecurity firm that expanded its operations into the Capital Factory in September. Capital Factory, a startup incubator, launched an outpost of its Center for Defense Innovation at the Port in 2021 to help connect tech companies to the U.S. Defense Department.
Also last fall, Leidos, the global technology giant behind the body scanning machines found at airports across the U.S., expanded into the Port, as did GDTI, a subsidiary of General Dynamics. Like Peraton, GDTI officials said they sought out the Port because it was looking to partner with industry, startups and academia.
Peraton’s expansion validates the Port’s strategy of building out a “dense cluster of companies and entrepreneurs and academic partners with a long-term talent pipeline funneling the expansion and growth of industries like autonomous systems, robotics, cybersecurity and aerospace,” said Will Garrett, the Port’s vice president of talent, technology development and integration.
News of Peraton’s expansion comes on the heels of an announcement by Visit San Antonio that Europe’s largest cybersecurity conference, the InCyber Forum, will host its first U.S. edition of the conference June 17-18, 2025, in San Antonio.
“San Antonio, also known as Cyber City USA, is the perfect home for the U.S. edition of the InCyber Forum,” said Vincent Riou, general manager of InCyber Forum Americas.
The conference, which began in Lille, France, draws 25,000 attendees annually. Roughly 5,000 people are expected to attend the conference in San Antonio, officials said.
