CACI’s DeEtte Gray Wins 9th Wash100 for Driving Tech Innovation for Critical Government Missions
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce DeEtte Gray, president of U.S. operations at CACI International, as a 2025 Wash100 awardee. This marks her ninth Wash100 win in recognition of her efforts in driving technological innovation to support defense, intelligence and federal civilian agency customers’ critical missions.
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“With her ninth Wash100 win, DeEtte is firmly in elite territory amongst her peers for GovCon’s highest honor. Drawing from leadership roles at Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, DeEtte has been instrumental in CACI’s momentum, driving financial growth, securing major contracts with agencies like USSOUTHCOM and NavalX, and leading smart acquisitions like Applied Insight and Azure Summit,” said Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award.
“As president of U.S. operations, she impressively oversees more than 20,000 employees and spearheads strategic planning, market growth and technology investments across CACI’s enterprise IT, digital solutions, space, cyber and mission engineering sectors. Congratulations DeEtte!” added Garrettson.
In her current role at CACI, Gray oversees investments in tech development efforts to support government customers and their missions across digital platforms, enterprise IT, spectrum superiority and command, control, communications and intelligence, or C3I, markets, among others.
Notable Contract Wins
With Gray as head of U.S. operations, CACI booked several major contracts in 2024, including the potential eight-year, $2 billion NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract, a 10-year, $450 million contract to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center and a five-year, $416 million task order from the U.S. Army to design and produce radio frequency systems for signals intelligence missions.
The company also secured a $805 million task order to provide engineering services and technologies for the NavalX Office; a $226 million task order for capability enhancement services in support of U.S. Southern Command; and a $319 million award to provide intelligence systems expertise for the Army.
M&A Activity
In 2024, CACI closed two major acquisitions. One of those two transactions is Azure Summit Technology, which the Reston, Virginia-based company acquired for $1.3 billion.
The government technology services contractor expects the Azure acquisition to strengthen its market-based strategy by expanding its software-defined offerings in electronic warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and signals intelligence across multiple domains. The transaction also broadens CACI’s insight and reach into airborne and maritime platforms.
CACI also acquired Applied Insight, a Northern Virginia-based company that delivers cloud migration and transformation services to DOD and the Intelligence Community. The deal aligns with the Reston, Virginia-based contractor’s mission to deliver differentiated technology to meet its customers’ toughest national security challenges.
Gray’s Involvement in Major Military IT Initiatives
As former head of CACI’s business and IT solutions, Gray played a key role in the company’s major technology modernization efforts in support of the U.S. military. One of those efforts is the launch of the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, which was deployed to all soldiers in January 2023.
CACI served as the systems integrator for the IPPS-A program, which consolidated over 50 disparate systems into a single web-based platform designed to manage all aspects of human resources and pay transactions for warfighters.
“We firmly believe that every service member deserves personnel and pay management processes that are transparent, efficient, and comprehensive but that also leverage the latest technology to assist them with managing their daily lives,” Gray said. “We took on this work with full commitment to the Army’s mission and were determined to address today’s data management challenges and tomorrow’s data security threats, ensuring readiness, and reducing risk to our nation’s soldiers.”
The Air Force awarded CACI a $5.7 billion blanket purchase agreement for Enterprise Information Technology as a Service Wave 1 initiative. Under this BPA, the company will deliver an enhanced IT management system, enterprise help desk, IT storefront, local field services and life cycle support for end-user services.
The CACI executive expressed excitement to work with the Air Force and Space Force to shift the service personnel to “more efficient and cost-effective as-a-service technology provisioning” under the EITaaS Wave 1 program.
DeEtte Gray’s Career Highlights
Prior to CACI, Gray spent five years at BAE Systems, where she served as president of intelligence and security responsible for the delivery of IT, intelligence analysis, systems engineering and cyber operations support for military and government customers.
The North Carolina State University graduate held senior leadership roles during her 13-year career at Lockheed Martin, including VP of enterprise IT solutions for information systems and global services-defense.
Executive Mosaic congratulates DeEtte Gray and the entire CACI team for her ninth Wash100 Award.Don’t miss the chance to show your support for DeEtte Gray at Wash100.com