CACI

CACI

Company type	Public (NYSE: CACI)
Industry	Information Technology
Founded	July, 1962 (Santa Monica, California, USA)
Founder	Harry Markowitz
Headquarters	Arlington, Virginia, USA
Key people	Herb Karr, Founder Harry Markowitz, Founder Dr. J. P. "Jack" London, Chairman of the Board Paul Cofoni, CEO and President
Services	Business System Solutions C4ISR Services Cyber Solutions Data, Information and Knowledge Management Services Enterprise IT and Network Services Integrated Security and Intelligence Solutions Logistics and Material Readiness Program Management and SETA Support Services
Revenue	USD 3.150B (2010)
Operating income	USD 194.8M (2010)
Net income	USD 106.5M (2010)
Number of employees	13,600 (2011)
Website	http://www.caci.com

CACI International Inc is a professional services and information technology (IT) company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. CACI is a member of the Fortune 1000 Largest Companies and the Russell 2000 index. The company has approximately 13,600 employees in over 120 offices in the U.S. and Europe.

Corporate leadership

On July 1, 2007, Paul Cofoni was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), William Fairl was appointed President, US Operations, and Randall Fuerst was appointed Chief Operations Officer (COO). Dr. J. P. (Jack) London remained Chairman of the Board and became Executive Chairman.

Corporate structure

CACI has eight major lines of business:

• Business System Solutions.
• C4ISR Solutions.
• Cyber Solutions.
• Data, Information and Knowledge Management Services.
• Enterprise IT and Network Services.
• Integrated Security and Intelligence Solutions.
• Logistics and Material Readiness.
• Program Management and SETA Support Services.

CACI's major markets are:

• Defense
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• IT Modernization and Government Transformation

History

CACI was founded by businessman Herb Karr and Harry Markowitz, who left RAND Corporation 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. CACI's corporate motto is "Ever Vigilant." In 1975 CACI Limited was founded in the UK.

During the latter part of the 1980's, CACI in the United States hosted an online demographics database on the Compuserve Online Service, which one could reach by entering the keywords "GO DEM". In Compuserve's journal "Online Today", CACI notably advertises a zip code demographics lookup service oriented to casual users and small businesses. Today, such general outreaches to the overall public concerning neighborhood demographics are no longer made. During this time period, CACI was headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia.

Abu Ghraib

On June 9, 2004, a group of 256 Iraqis sued CACI International and Titan Corporation (now L-3 Services, part of L-3 Communications) in U.S. federal court. The plaintiffs, former prisoners, allege that the companies directed and participated in torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, sexual assault, as well as cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment at Abu Ghraib prison. The U.S. Government had hired CACI and Titan to provide interrogation and translation services at military prisons in Iraq.

CACI employees Joe Ryan and Steven Stephanowicz were investigated in the Taguba inquiry. The Department of the Army found that "contractors were involved in 36 percent of the [Abu Ghraib] proven incidents" and identified 6 employees as "individually culpable", although none have faced prosecution, unlike Department of Defense servicemen.

According to an early Army report, a CACI interrogator, "[m]ade a false statement to the investigation team regarding the locations of his interrogations, the activities during his interrogations, and his knowledge of abuses". Further, investigators found the CACI interrogator encouraged Military Policemen to terrorize inmates, and "clearly knew his instructions equated to physical abuse".

CACI response

According to CACI’s website, "the company provided a range of Information Technology (IT) and intelligence services in Iraq. These services included intelligence analysis, background investigations, screenings, interrogation, property management and recordkeeping, and installation of computer systems, software and hardware. Only a small portion of these employees worked as interrogators." The company states that "no CACI employee or former employee has been indicted for any misconduct in connection with this work, and no CACI employee or former employee appears in any of the photos released from Abu Ghraib". CACI also adds that they "are no longer providing interrogation services in Iraq," which concluded in the early fall of 2005 upon the conclusion of a contract with the Department of the Army.

CACI also adds "nonetheless, we do not condone, tolerate or endorse any illegal behavior by our employees in any circumstance or at any time. We will act forcefully if the evidence shows that any of our employees acted improperly, but we will not rush to judgment on the basis of speculation, innuendo, partial reports or incomplete investigations."

CACI also claims on their website that US Government reports generally "concluded that civilian interrogators performed their duties in an appropriate fashion and made a major contribution to the US mission in Iraq." CACI further claims a March 2005 report by US Navy Inspector General and Vice Admiral Albert T. Church shows that despite the publicity surrounding Abu Ghraib, "we found very few instances of abuse involving contractors." It remains interesting that CACI investigated CACI, and (unsurprisingly) found that CACI had done no wrong.

Radio show comments result in a lawsuit

On August 26, 2005, Randi Rhodes, a host for the Air America talk radio program, claimed that employees of CACI International had raped and murdered Iraqi civilians at the Abu Ghraib prison. CACI sued Air America and its parent company, Piquant LLC, for allegedly making "false and defamatory" charges. CACI sought $1M in compensatory damages and $10M in punitive damages. The claim was dismissed by a US District Court judge on September 21, 2006. CACI pursued an appeal, having received permission to do so from a bankruptcy court (which lifted the automatic stay that resulted when Air America filed for bankruptcy protection).

May 2008 lawsuit

In May 2008, four former Abu Ghraib prison inmates, who were all released without charge, brought separate lawsuits in four US courts against CACI and L-3 Communications as well as against three civilians. One of these former inmates, Emad al-Janabi, sued L-3 and CACI for allowing their employees to abuse him physically and mentally at the prison. In a statement released on their website CACI has stated that these lawsuits are "baseless" and they "reject emphatically this latest plaintiff's allegations and claims" calling on "numerous and thorough government investigations" in these allegations.

On March 19, 2009, US District Judge Gerald Bruce rejected claims by CACI that it could not be sued because its interrogators were performing duties proscribed by the contract with the US government. CACI responded that it vowed to "pursue all of its legal alternatives to defend itself and vindicate the company's good name" and that "From day one, CACI has rejected the outrageous allegations against the company in this lawsuit and continues to do so."

On September 11, 2009, the US Court of Appeals ruled that CACI did in fact fall under US military chain of command and thus had government contractor immunity. In October 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court considered hearing an appeal and requested the views of the U.S. Solicitor General on the case. In the meantime, CACI and L-3 continued to argue in federal appellate court for civil immunity, as clients of the federal government in national defense.

No ruling as regards the actions of the CACI employees has ever been made.

Irish Census 2011

CACI was contracted to evaluate Irish Cencus 2011. Because of their Abu Ghraib alleged involment Irish general public decided to boycott Census 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boycott Irish Census 2011.

Acquisitions

• 2010: Applied Systems Research, Inc.
• 2010: TechniGraphics, Inc.
• 2009: SystemWare, Inc.
• 2007: Dragon Development Corporation
• 2007: Athena Innovative Solutions, Inc.
• 2007: The Wexford Group International
• 2007: Institute for Quality Management, Inc.
• 2006: AlphaInsight Corp.
• 2005: Information Systems Support, Inc.
• 2005: National Security Research, Inc.
• 2004: American Management Systems, Inc. (Defense and Intelligence Group)
• 2004: CMS Information Services, Inc.
• 2004: MTL Systems, Inc.
• 2003: Arete Ltd. (and its flagship database product IMPULSE)
• 2003: C-CUBED Corp.
• 2003: Premier Technology Group, Inc.
• 2003: Applied Technology Solutions of Northern VA, Inc.
• 2003: Rochester Information Services Ltd. (UK)
• 2002: Acton Burnell, Inc.
• 2002: Condor Technology Solutions, Inc. (Government Solutions Division)
• 2001: Digital Systems International, Inc.
• 2000: net.com (N.E.T. Federal, Inc. subsidiary)
• 2000: Century Technologies, Inc.
• 2000: XEN Corp.
• 1998: QuesTech, Inc.
• 1997: Infonet Services Corp. (Government Systems, Inc. subsidiary)
• 1997: Statistica, Inc. (Systems Engineering Division)
• 1996: IMS Technologies
• 1995: Automated Sciences Group
• 1993: Softech, Inc. (Federal Government Business divisions)
• 1992: American Legal Systems Corp.

See also

• Top 100 US Federal Contractors

External links

• CACI