CACI International Inc.’s (NYSE: CACI) Bluestone Analytics and Torchlight AI announced a strategic partnership to provide the DarkPursuit capability within the Torchlight Catalyst platform.
The partnership will provide Torchlight customers, mainly Special Operations Forces (SOF), with safe and secure access to browse the open, deep, and dark web.
“This partnership offers SOF customers a way to accelerate obtaining critical information that can give them an advantage over our adversaries,” CACI International President of Operations Support and Services Meisha Lutsey said.
CACI’s DarkPursuit enables users to pivot from analysis and targeting activity to secure virtual browsing on the open, deep, and dark web (Tor, I2P, Freenet, and ZeroNet).
With access to the DarkPursuit tool, Torchlight has enhanced its capability for real-time, enhanced decision-making across the spectrum of SOF challenges, including irregular warfare.
“CACI’s DarkPursuit technology is an industry gold standard and fills a capability gap that helps us to provide our customers, especially SOF, with the advantage they need,” Torchlight CEO James Bourie said.
Founded in 1962 by computer industry pioneers Herb Karr and Harry Markowitz, CACI is today a $6.2 billion company providing expertise and technology to enterprise and mission customers in support of national security missions and government transformation for defense, intelligence, and civilian customers. It employs 22,000 globally and is a member of the Fortune 1000 Largest Companies, the Russell 1000 Index, and the S&P MidCap 400 Index.
CACI acquired dark web exploitation and analysis company Bluestone Analytics in 2021. Bluestone’s DarkBlue Intelligence Platform assists defense, security, and intelligence customers in searching and analyzing critical data on the deep and dark web and on select open-source intelligence (OSINT) platforms.
CACI booked $1.7 billion in revenues in the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, up 10% on the year and an adjusted net income of $114.5 million, up 4.4% year-on-year. Contract awards in the third quarter totaled $1.1 billion, with approximately 50 percent for new business to CACI, the company announced in April.
Torchlight AI was founded on the idea of predicting threat activity through behavioral analytics, according to its website. The company provides data through a user interface with a library of 17,000+ threat behaviors to streamline analytic processes that enhance decision-making.
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