CACI is shifting from space services and software toward end-to-end space mission systems by acquiring ARKA Group for $2.6B (announced in December 2025). The deal expands CACI’s ability to deliver space-based sensors, ground processing, and analytics to the Intelligence Community and the U.S. Space Force, strengthening its position for Golden Dome (GD4A)-adjacent opportunities and broader modernization priorities such as Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), cyber, electronic and information warfare (EW/IW), and cloud.
The FedSavvy Strategies Takeaway
- CACI is expanding its work in the military space market, with extensive software development capabilities, large-scale commercial-style IT services, military and mission IT, and special operations support.
- CACI’s acquisition of ARKA Group bolsters CACI’s space capabilities and supports a broader push toward full mission-system delivery.
- The company appears to be aligning its work around high-priority national security modernization efforts, including C5ISR, cybersecurity, EW/IW, cloud technology, and JADC2.
- Its recent moves strengthen CACI’s posture as a Golden Dome (GD4A) competitor.
How is CACI Positioned in the Military Space Market?
In December 2025, CACI entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ARKA Group L.P. from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities for $2.6 billion. ARKA supports national security missions through its space-based sensor portfolio and ground-based software processing capabilities. ARKA builds CACI’s capabilities in the space domain across the Intelligence Community, the U.S. Space Force, and other Department of War customers.
The move signals a shift in CACI’s space capabilities from services and software to more end-to-end mission capabilities, combining hardware, software, and analytics, with space-based sensors and ground-based processing, strengthening its relevance to defense customers and potential GD4A opportunities.
Who is ARKA?
ARKA Group L.P. is a space and defense mission-systems engineering contractor focused on advanced sensing, resilient communications, optical systems, mission software, and data analytics. Its portfolio includes remote-sensing payloads, laser threat detection, and mission-management software tailored for military and space platforms.
ARKA Group was formed in 2019, with the acquisition of AMERGINT Technologies and the consolidation of its heritage companies under ARKA. The firm has performed significant work for the U.S. Army, including delivery of AN/VVR-4 laser detecting systems under a multi-year contract, and supports a broad array of defense and space customers with mission-critical technologies and services.
GSA AAS FEDSIM Wins
Given its strong FEDSIM track record and continued expansion in the space domain, CACI is well-positioned as a leading competitor in the military space market and a contender for emerging Golden Dome opportunities. Here are a few examples of GSA AAS FEDSIM wins that demonstrate CACI’s capabilities in national security and modernization:
- Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge (BEAGLE)
- Customer: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Border Enforcement and Management Systems Division (BEMSD)
- Award: November 2019
- Contract value: $2.3 billion
- CACI’s role: Develops, maintains, and delivers functional enhancements across 100+ mission-critical CBP software applications within the BEMSD portfolio. CACI works with more than 100 software applications within the BEMSD portfolio that provide mission-critical capabilities to secure national borders. This contract has been extended through September 2027 as the government prepares for the recompete contract.
- Relevance to customer mission: Strengthens CBP’s operational readiness and border security execution by sustaining and modernizing systems that enable real-time border enforcement, mission management, and national security outcomes.
- IMAX Decisive Action (DA)
- Customer: U.S. Department of War (DoW), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO)
- Award: June 2021
- Contract value: $1.4 billion
- CACI’s role: Continues to provide analytical and mission expertise to support countering and deterring Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and threat networks, enabling integrated mission solutions across complex threat environments. Under this contract, CACI is providing DTRA with a wide range of analytical expertise to drive and enable mission solutions to counter and deter multi-faceted threats.
- Relevance to customer mission: Directly supports high-priority national security objectives by enabling threat-informed decision-making and operational effectiveness against WMD and networked adversary threats.
- Communications and IT Services IV (CITS IV)
- Customer: U.S. Department of War (DoW), U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)
- Award: March 2024
- Contract value: $1.3 billion
- CACI’s role: This Alliant 2 task order modernizes and improves software and hardware performance, optimizes communications and network IT, and delivers end-user support for 11,000+ personnel across 60 locations in Europe and Africa. Provides cloud enablement, edge computing, CSfC, JADC2 integration, and advanced cybersecurity and zero-trust implementation.
- Relevance to customer mission: Enables resilient theater communications and mission command modernization by advancing cloud, cyber, and JADC2-aligned capabilities critical to distributed operations and contested
- Information Technology Enterprise Management Systems Solution (ITEMSS)
- Customer: U.S. Department of the Army, Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC)
- Award: May 2019
- Contract value: $1.3 billion (raised from $880 million)
- CACI’s role: Provides IT and engineering support for PL RCAS–FMS, including hardware/software design, sustainment and modification, networking, cybersecurity, distance learning program support, and military construction services. This predecessor contract led to the genesis of the Agile Solutions Factory (ASF).
- Relevance to customer mission: This Alliant 2 task order advances Army enterprise modernization and operational readiness through secure IT engineering, sustainment, and scalable mission systems support aligned to C5ISR priorities.
- Special Operations Forces Emerging Threats, Operations, and Planning Support (SOFETOPS)
- Customer: U.S. Department of the Army, Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)
- Award: September 2021 (in recompete cycle via GSA AAS as of January 2026)
- Contract value: $785 million
- CACI’s role: This GSA OASIS task order delivers integrated information warfare (IW) and electronic warfare (EW) solutions, training, readiness, and modernization support to advance USASOC missions.
- Relevance to customer mission: Strengthens USASOC’s ability to operate in contested environments by accelerating IW/EW readiness and modernization against emerging threats and near-peer capabilities.
- Exploit, Enhance, Enable, and Influence (E3I)
- Customer: U.S. Department of the Army, Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) office
- Award: April 2024
- Contract value: $416 million
- CACI’s role: Designs, produces, and delivers customized radio frequency (RF) systems and advanced signal processing frameworks to develop, deploy, and sustain evolving TENCAP technologies, prototypes, sensors, and systems.
- Relevance to customer mission: Expands Army SIGINT and EW capability delivery by enabling rapid fielding and quick-reaction RF and signal-processing solutions aligned with cyber, EW, and C5ISR modernization priorities.
- Global Operational Support Information Insight and Threat (GOSIIT)
- Customer: U.S. Department of the Army, Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), C5ISR Center
- Award: May 2024
- Contract value: $415 million
- CACI’s role: Provides mission expertise and unmanned systems support, delivering technology assessments and countermeasure effectiveness insights to meet critical national, tactical, and operational requirements.
- Relevance to customer mission: Enhances Army C5ISR decision advantage by accelerating threat-informed evaluations and unmanned systems support in response to evolving operational needs.
- Operations, Planning and Training Support 2 (AOPTS 2)
- Customer: U.S. Department of War (DoW), U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)
- Award: January 2020 (follow-on awarded May 2025)
- Contract value: $249 million, follow-on awarded at $437 million
- CACI’s role: This GSA OASIS task order provides operations, planning, and training support, delivering high-level mission expertise to AFRICOM, its component commands, and partners across peacetime, crisis, and contingency operations. In May 2025, CACI was awarded the seven-year AOPTS 2
- Relevance to customer mission: Enables AFRICOM mission execution and partner coordination by supporting operational planning, readiness, and command-level decision-making across complex and dynamic regional security environments.
- Operations, Planning, and Engagement Support (SCOPES)
- Customer: U.S. Department of War (DoW), U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
- Award: September 2024
- Contract value: $226 million
- CACI’s role: The GSA OASIS task order provides program/project management, planning, strategy, partner nation engagement, strategic and operational analysis, logistics, security cooperation, exercises and assessments, and data/knowledge management support.
- Relevance to customer mission: Strengthens SOUTHCOM operational effectiveness and partner engagement by enabling integrated planning, execution support, and mission analysis aligned to evolving regional security priorities.
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