CACI to shore up DOD security clearance procedures

Contractor will provide software engineering and integration services to increase efficiency and timeliness of DOD's security clearance processing.

CACI International Inc. will assist the Defense Logistics Agency streamline and automate the Defense Department’s security clearance process under a $39 million DOD contract.

With this task order, CACI will provide software engineering and integration services to help develop a service oriented architecture-based solution that will increase the efficiency and timeliness of DOD's security clearance process, from eligibility verification and credentialing to hiring and re-investigations.

The delivery order falls under DOD's Encore II contract vehicle and is for a seven-month base period and nine overlapping option periods of varying lengths, according to the Jan.3 company announcement.

This is new work for CACI and expands the company's business system solutions core capability.

As the DOD's largest logistics combat support agency, the DLA provides worldwide logistics, acquisition and technical support to the military services as well as to several civilian agencies and foreign countries.

CACI International, of Arlington, Va., ranks No. 14 on Washington Technology’s 2011 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.