Pros
Excellent work environment with fellow CACI employees, albeit on a job site (Defense Intelligence Agency, Office for Counterintelligence, Russell-Knox Bldg., Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia) that was palpably hostile to our very presence (and I was so warned by my new CACI colleagues on day one). Six months later, appropo of nothing in particular, DIA cashiered me without warning, after returning home on a Firday night. No right of appeal, no reason, no explanation. I was later told by CACI management that my superior expertise in the topical subject matter "scared" and threatened the mid-level (GG-14) management at OCI-2 (Counterespionage Division) where I was assigned. In addition, I was later advised by CACI that their written DIA OCI notice to CACI said I had been repeatedly counseled about different excesses of which I had purportedly been guilty, and that I flagrantly disregarded the warnings until it reached a point they had no choice but to fire me. This account, which I was not permitted by CACI to either read first-hand, much less rebut, was frankly lies by DIA OCI from top to bottom. There had never occurred any counselings, negative or otherwise, no warnings or disciplinary action of any kind. The DIA-OCI indictment of me was simply a willfully falsified U.S. Government document aimed at justifying their otherwise unjustifiable action. At root, the brewing scandal was, I believe, that we CACI seniors (retired senior GG-15 and SES of an average 28-32 years federal Intelligence Community experience each) were all relegated to clerical tasks by the OCI-2 management for reasons unknown. Our respective job descriptions (JD), each detailing substantive duties assigned by DIA-OCI, were simply lies. Completely false statements except for usually one line at the end that committed us to the full-time clerical hell of "maintaining databases, inputting data." To the extent that they were paying us the top rate of $105,000 each on an annual basis might be, should be the focus of a DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) inquiry.
Cons
The CACI motto is that "we don't hire for a job, we hire for a career." This is an outright falsehood. I urge any applicants to not be deceived. They hire for the job, and perhaps this alone is fair enough - just do not get suckered in otherwise about the "career" bit. At best, adopting this corporate logo CACI commits to far more than it has any intent to deliver. CACI accepted the sudden, late Friday hour demand by DIA-OCI demand to remove me from the contract (i.e. fired) without question. I was advised by telephone call to my hotel residence that Friday night to not return to work on Monday, and turn in my badges the next day to a supervisor who would visit my hotel. I was, in short, summarily kicked to the curb without hesitation. So much for the CACI "career." In fairness, CACI signed me up to their "Alumni Program", had me working with a CACI recruiter to place me elsewhere in the organization for months afterwards without success. No success at placing me within CACI's huge organization, despite the many dozens of suitable CACI vacancies for which I applied via my own CACI Careers web site account (which the recruiter would automatically "see" upon my submitting the e-application). Today is the three-month date since I was let go, the recruiter has been silent for six weeks and counting, my applications to CACI vacancies continue unabated but are never answered. I get it. I am blacklisted. Recommend you, dear reader / would-be CACI applicant, not be the next "valued employee" to be unceremoniously booted & blacklisted while left wondering "why?"