In adding Azure Summit, CACI will first look at combining technologies to work with U.S. customers and then use that as a pathway for global expansion.
The all-cash transaction also expands CACI International's presence with defense and national security agencies, plus reunites a pair of former Acacia Group businesses.
In explaining the acquisition to Wall Street, CACI International CEO John Mengucci pointed to a large Navy software development program as where the company got an early look at the possibilities.
The pending addition of Azure Summit Technology is the newest move by CACI International to expand its electronic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum footprints.
A separate set of six protests remains active at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims over their elimination from a place on the IT Enterprise Solutions 4 Hardware vehicle.
The company primarily leans on software to develop and deliver its solutions, which means that others more focused on hardware can make for key partners.
The future Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services contract is being designed to bring staff augmentation and technology support from industry into one procurement.
John Mengucci described the company's strategic shift, approach to acquisitions and technology priorities in this Q&A at Washington Technology's event on the 2024 Top 100.
This on-ramp round of awards focuses on the vehicles' underlying technologies such as payloads, mission support systems and the needed autonomy to control them.
One delivery to the U.S.' neighbors up north is on contract and as CACI's chief executive told Wall Street, more activity like that drives the addressable market for its technology.