M&A Acquirer Playbook

CACI INTERNATIONAL INC /DE/ acquisition history.

Every deal, price, and strategic rationale.

Company CACI INTERNATIONAL INC /DE/
SEC CIK 0000016058
Tracked filings EDGAR · 8-K
Total deals tracked
15
Disclosed 8-K acquisitions, 2006 — present.
Aggregate disclosed value
$7.6B
approximately $7.6 billion across 15 disclosed transactions — anchored by the $2.6B ARKA Group and $1.275B Azure Summit deals.
Active acquisition years
2006 · 2007 · 2013 · 2015 · 2019 · 2021 · 2024 · 2025
a steady cadence of national-security tuck-ins and periodic transformational deals.
Primary sectors
Defense and intelligence technology and services
national-security space (ARKA), electronic warfare and RF/SIGINT (Azure Summit, LGS Innovations, Mastodon, Ascent Vision), photonics (SA Photonics), cyber and C4ISR (Six3 Systems), and federal enterprise IT (L-3 NSS, ID Technologies, ISS, AlphaInsight).
Verified 15 deals on this page · sourced from SEC filings
All cross-references covered.

15 deals, $7.6B deployed.

Plotted by close date where disclosed, otherwise announcement. Click any marker to jump to the deal entry.

The rationale that repeats.

Three patterns show up across CACI INTERNATIONAL's deal book — what the team buys, how it pays, and how it integrates. The patterns are the throughline; the individual deals below are the evidence.

01
Acquisition criteria

Buy mission technology, not just headcount.

CACI's recent flagship deals — ARKA Group ($2.6B, space-based sensing), Azure Summit ($1.275B, RF/electromagnetic spectrum), LGS Innovations and Mastodon ($975M, SIGINT/EW/cyber products) — all add differentiated, productized technology rather than commodity staffing. Management repeatedly frames these as expanding CACI's offerings across ISR, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence for escalating-threat environments.

ARKA Group, L.P.Azure Summit TechnologyApplied InsightID TechnologiesSA Photonics
02
Capital deployment

A disciplined cadence of cleared, government-facing tuck-ins.

From AlphaInsight and Information Systems Support (2006) through Athena, Dragon Development and IQM (2007) to ID Technologies (2021) and Applied Insight (2024), CACI consistently absorbs small-to-mid federal IT and intelligence firms — many with highly cleared workforces — to deepen its presence with the Intelligence Community, DoD, and federal civilian customers.

ARKA Group, L.P.Azure Summit TechnologyApplied InsightID TechnologiesSA Photonics
03
Integration approach

Debt-financed scale-ups timed to step-change capability.

The largest deals are paired with fresh credit facilities, term loans and senior notes (the L-3 NSS, Six3, Azure Summit and ARKA acquisitions each appear alongside financing 8-Ks), letting CACI move opportunistically into adjacent technology domains — space, electronic warfare, photonics — when assets become available.

ARKA Group, L.P.Azure Summit TechnologyApplied InsightID TechnologiesSA Photonics

The full deal book.

15 acquisitions. Click any row to see the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, executive commentary, and the original SEC filing — the evidence behind the patterns above.

End of deal book
15 acquisitions · $7.6B deployed ·2006 — present
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