New filing unearths more details on CACI affiliate’s recent Army contract protest

The contract protest filed last week by CACI International Inc.’s (NYSE: CACI) federal subsidiary centers on an August award to General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD) for a new cryptographic device, court documents show. 

CACI Inc.-Federal’s original protest, filed in the Court of Federal Claims, seeks to address “issued awards that CACI is protesting,” from the Army, but offered little further information as the company requested it remain sealed, citing proprietary information. 

A motion filed Friday by a General Dynamics subsidiary, General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc., revealed that the CACI affiliate’s protest is of the larger company’s August award for the Next Generation Load Device-Medium (NGLD-M), an encryption device that will receive “the strongest NSA-generated cryptographic keys to tactical, strategic and enterprise network systems operating from SECRET to the highest levels of security classification,” according to a November 2020 announcement about the Army’s…

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