CACI International Inc. (originally California Analysis Center, Inc., then Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc.) is an American
multinational professional services
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and
information technology company headquartered in
Northern Virginia.
CACI provides services to many branches of the
US federal government
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including
defense
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,
homeland security
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,
intelligence
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, and
healthcare
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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
RAND Corporation
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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
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of pro ...
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 Titan Corporation
Titan Corporation was a United States-based company that started as a telecommunications defense contractor with its headquarters located in San Diego, California. It was acquired by L-3 Communications on June 3, 2005 for $2.65 billion and oper ...
(now L-3 Services, part of L-3 Communications
L3 Technologies, formerly L-3 Communications Holdings, was an American company that supplied command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ( C3ISR) systems and products, avionics, ocean products, training d ...
) 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
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'' reported that "a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge ... that they were torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. Some definitions are restricted to acts c ...
d and that the contractor CACI International is partly to blame."
Competitors
Depending on the focus (USA, International), competitors to CACI include Accenture
Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. A ''Fortune'' Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $61.6 billion in 2022. Accentur ...
, Capgemini, Infosys
Infosys Limited is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The company was founded in Pune and is headquartered in Ba ...
, Leidos
Leidos, formerly known as Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), is an American defense, aviation, information technology (Lockheed Martin IS&GS), and biomedical research company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that provides s ...
, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
See also
* Top 100 US Federal Contractors
References
External links
CACI Corporate Official web site
{{Authority control
1962 establishments in Virginia
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
American companies established in 1962
Business intelligence companies
Business services companies established in 1962
Companies based in Reston, Virginia
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Computer companies established in 1962
Consulting firms established in 1962
Defense companies of the United States
Information technology consulting firms of the United States