IT services company CACI landed a more than half-billion-dollar contract from the U.S. Army to upgrade the outside plant at a minimum of 40 different installations, scoring its latest big money award under the government’s Alliant 2 procurement program.
As part of the $514 million task order, CACI will engineer, install, test and deliver a turnkey solution to update existing fiber network infrastructure and add capacity to support high-speed voice, video and data networks for critical command and control systems. A company representative told Fierce it specifically will be "upgrading and installing the fiber physical infrastructure not the system optical components."
“CACI’s understanding and unique OSP knowledge will ensure that this modernization maximizes the Army’s current infrastructure, evolves to incorporate the latest network standards and supports Army communications for software, data and analytics at scale as well as network security,” John Mengucci, CACI president and CEO, said in a statement. “Working with the Army, we will effectively deliver higher reliability and survivability supporting all missions with near-zero downtime.”
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Launched on July 1, 2018, Alliant 2 is the U.S. General Services Administration’s IT services and solutions procurement program. The program’s suppliers include BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Lumen Technologies, Northrop Grumman, NTT Data and SAIC, among others. AT&T Government Solutions was previously listed as an Alliant 2 vendor, but the operator sold that part of its business to Tyto Athene in April 2021.
The half-billion-dollar contract is the latest of several CACI has won under the Alliant 2 framework. In 2019, it secured an $880 million task order to provide IT and engineering services to help the Army develop personnel and force management systems. That year it also landed a separate $645 million contract to provide IT services – including devices, hardware, software and support services – in support of the U.S. European and Africa commands.
The following year it was awarded a $59 million task order from the Office of Under Secretary of Defense to provide onsite operational support for system maintenance, information security, migration and integration. In 2021, it scored a $96 million contract to help the Army test, deploy, integrate and maintain medical record software for its Combat Casualty Care Program.