U.S. Central Command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, will get technology and intelligence support through a contract worth up to $1.5 billion that could run for five years.
CACI International received the award to support CENTCOM and its military partners, starting with a one-year term followed by four option periods. The Reston, Virginia-based national security technology company expects to book $1.2 billion of the total value and employs about 27,000 people.
CACI will do the work through Apollo, a program built to pull information together across commands and partner forces so CENTCOM can plan operations, analyze intelligence and get that information to commanders faster. The company said the technology will also help coordinate missions in places where access or communications may be contested or denied.
“CENTCOM operates in one of the world’s most challenging regions, where intelligence must move quickly from insight to action,” CACI CEO John Mengucci said. “CACI brings the knowledge and advanced capabilities to help U.S. and partner forces act with speed, clarity, and confidence in support of our national security interests.”
For CENTCOM, those decisions can start in Tampa and reach across a region spanning more than 4 million square miles, 21 countries and more than 560 million people. The command oversees U.S. military operations and activities across the Middle East, Central Asia and parts of South Asia from its MacDill headquarters.
CENTCOM is one of two combatant commands headquartered at MacDill, alongside U.S. Special Operations Command, and several of its component commands are based there, too. Marine Corps Forces Central Command, Special Operations Command Central and U.S. Space Forces Central all operate from the Tampa base, concentrating military commands and the contractors that support them around MacDill.
Apollo will also support CENTCOM’s irregular warfare work, an area where CACI already works with other geographic and functional combatant commands. CACI said it will use that experience to support CENTCOM’s planning, coordination and operational readiness under the new award.
CACI did not say how many people will work on the contract, where they will be based or whether it will add jobs in Tampa Bay.