June 30, 2009 (FinancialWire) — CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) has been awarded a $125 million prime contract to provide software engineering support for fielded fire support systems for the U.S. Army.

The award, for one base year and two option years, was competitively awarded under the Army’s Strategic Services Sourcing contract vehicle. The task order brings the total amount of S3 awards to CACI to nearly $2 billion.

According to CACI, the fire support organization named in the contract is responsible for providing software engineering support for U.S. Army and other DoD organizations that are developing command and control, target acquisition, meteorological, fire direction, and fire control software intensive systems.

The organization supports fielded fire support systems through software enhancement, maintenance, worldwide fielding, and post fielding support.

The companies on CACI’s team will provide system and software engineering support services for a variety of field artillery and fires systems including command and control, fire support, meteorological measuring systems, several variations of firefinder radar systems, and lightweight counter mortar radar systems.

Arlington, Virginia-based CACI International provides professional services and IT solutions for defense, intelligence, homeland security, and federal civilian government markets.

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