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CACI Awarded Potential $443 Million Deal To Help Army With Commercial Technology Threats

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

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CACI Awarded Potential $443 Million Deal To Help Army With Commercial Technology Threats

Two drones. (Jeso Carneiro)

The Army has awarded CACI [CACI] new deal worth up to $443 million to help the service develop and prototype capabilities to fight adversaries’ use of threats built from commercial technologies. CACI is tasked with providing methodologies to reverse engineer new techniques to better identify commercial-based threats, which includes systems such as small unmanned aircraft systems. “U.S. adversaries continue to endanger our service members by modifying off-the-shelf products. The unique expertise and critical technology CACI provides will assist the Army…

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