CACI International Inc. (originally California Analysis Center, Inc., then Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc.) is an American multinational professional services and

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headquartered in Northern Virginia. CACI provides services to many branches of the US federal government including

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, homeland security, intelligence, and

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. CACI has approximately 23,000 employees worldwide. CACI is a member of the Fortune 1000 Largest Companies, the Russell 2000 index, and the S&P MidCap 400 Index.

History

CACI was founded by Herb Karr and Harry Markowitz, who left

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in 1962 to commercialize the SIMSCRIPT simulation programming language. The company went public in 1968. "CACI", which was originally an acronym for "California Analysis Center, Incorporated", was changed to stand for "Consolidated Analysis Center, Incorporated" in 1967. In 1973, the acronym alone was adopted as the firm's official name; reflecting the name customers had grown familiar with. Their ''CACI Limited'' (UK) subsidiary was founded in 1975. In February 2020, CACI announced the hiring of former White House staffer Daniel Walsh as corporate strategic adviser and senior vice president. In April 2022, CACI announced that it had been awarded the Gold Edison Award, for its critical data dark web analysis intelligence platform DarkBlue.

Acquisitions

Internal growth

CACI's SIMSCRIPT software product line added object-oriented capability, and added a new government contracting area: Space.

Controversies

Abu Ghraib

On June 9, 2004, a group of 256 Iraqis sued CACI International and

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(now L-3 Services, part of L-3 Communications) in U.S. federal court regarding CACI's alleged involvement in the

Abu Ghraib prison Abu Ghraib prison ( ar, سجن أبو غريب, ''Sijn Abū Ghurayb'') was a prison complex in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, located west of Baghdad. Abu Ghraib prison was opened in the 1950s and served as a maximum-security prison with torture, weekly exe ...

matter. Details are still, in 2019, under review by authorities. A 2017 story in '' The Washington Post'' reported that "a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge ... that they were tortured and that the contractor CACI International is partly to blame."

Competitors

Depending on the focus (USA, International), competitors to CACI include

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, Capgemini, Infosys, Leidos, and Booz Allen Hamilton.

References

External links

CACI Corporate Official web site
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