From real-time media monitoring to influence campaign planning, Peraton IRIS supports the full analytical lifecycle — transforming multi-source data into clear, actionable intelligence at the speed operations demand.

“Peraton has long understood that the information environment is not a secondary theater: it is a primary one. Peraton IRIS represents the convergence of artificial intelligence and real-time data integration,” said Tom Afferton, president of Peraton’s Cyber and Intelligence Sector. “Combined with deep operational expertise, Peraton IRIS is a single platform that empowers our analysts, planners, graphics illustrators, researchers, and most importantly, operators, to stay ahead of adversary narratives, counter their messaging at scale, and support mission success across every domain. In an era of cognitive warfare, speed and clarity of understanding are decisive advantages, and Peraton IRIS delivers both.”

As adversaries increasingly weaponize information to erode public trust, manipulate perceptions, and undermine democratic institutions, Peraton IRIS equips operators and mission planners with the tools needed to detect, understand, and counter these threats at machine speed. The platform brings together continuously updated data sources into a single, intuitive interface that supports real-time decision-making across the full spectrum of information operations, according to the company.

Peraton IRIS orchestrates five of the nation’s most powerful AI models — and layers on top of them the mission data, domain context, and analytical workflows that turn raw AI capability into actionable national security intelligence. Peraton IRIS is vendor-agnostic, data agnostic, and contract-agnostic. The LLMs are powerful engines. Peraton IRIS is the vehicle — with the mission map, the fuel, and the driver already built in.

Peraton IRIS is designed around the realities of today’s information environment, where cognitive warfare —the deliberate targeting of human perception, belief systems, and decision-making—has emerged as one of the most consequential domains of modern conflict. Nation-state adversaries and non-state actors alike are deploying sophisticated influence campaigns, disinformation networks, and narrative manipulation strategies to achieve strategic objectives without firing a single shot.

Peraton IRIS addresses this challenge by providing advanced semantic search, natural language querying, sentiment trend analysis, and AI-assisted narrative tracking — enabling teams to identify influence operations in near real-time, map adversary messaging strategies, and develop data-driven counter-narratives. The platform’s cognitive warfare module supports Psychological Operations (PSYOP) and Information Operations (IO) planning and target audience analysis, giving commanders and planners an unprecedented edge in the battle for the information domain, the company said.

“What Peraton IRIS does is fundamentally change the relationship between the user and the data. Instead of spending hours aggregating information from disparate sources, operators can now ask complex, multi-layered questions in natural language and receive synthesized, citation-backed answers in seconds,” said Cliff Bean, senior director of cognitive warfare. “That shift — from data management to genuine insight generation — is what makes Peraton IRIS a force multiplier for every mission it supports.”

Source: Peraton

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“We are happy to announce our next LOI, which adds more than 25 employees and further strengthens our past performance by adding more capabilities in Information Warfare/Information Operations (IW/IO) serving the special operations community,” said Mark Fuller, president and CEO of Castellum. “Combined with some organic growth that we have seen recently; this accretive acquisition will push Castellum above the $40 million run-rate threshold. We also continue to look at other potential acquisitions.”

Source: Castellum

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Peraton will leverage its 30 years of experience supporting NIWC Pacific’s various unmanned systems programs — including the operations, maintenance, sustainment, integration, and software development of those systems — to bring increased autonomy and integration of advanced technology to counter the evolving threats faced by the U.S. Navy.

NIWC Pacific provides technological and engineering support critical to information warfare for the Navy, as well as for Marine Corps, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard programs. Systems development and support includes basic research and prototype development through systems engineering, and integration to life cycle support of fielded systems.

“We are proud to continue our long-time partnership with Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. Peraton’s extensive unmanned systems experience and mission-driven workforce—now paired with Peraton Remotec’s manufacturing facilities—position us to help support critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions,” said John Coleman, president, Global Defense & Security sector. “Together, we will help address the Navy’s most challenging problems and push the limits of artificial intelligence and machine learning to do what’s never been done before.”

Source: Peraton

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