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

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and information technology company headquartered in

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. CACI provides services to many branches of the

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including defense,

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, and healthcare. 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

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, who left RAND Corporation in 1962 to commercialize the

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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

software product line added

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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

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) in U.S. federal court regarding CACI's alleged involvement in the Abu Ghraib prison matter. Details are still, in 2019, under review by authorities. A 2017 story in ''

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'' reported that "a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge ... that they were

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d and that the contractor CACI International is partly to blame."

Competitors

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

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, and

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References

External links

CACI Corporate Official web site
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