Executive Mosaic could not be more thrilled to bestow the 2024 Wash100 Award on DeEtte Gray, president of business and information technology solutions at CACI International. Following on seven previous recognitions, Gray is awarded her eighth trophy for her instrumental defense sector technology modernization efforts.
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“I am honored to receive this recognition and incredibly proud of the exceptional program performance and our talented employees,” said Gray. “We are winning great work and growing. This is truly a reflection of our entire team’s commitment to bring innovation and transformation to solve the challenges of our customers.”
“Since joining CACI seven years ago, DeEtte has distinguished herself as one of the company’s central pillars, supporting continuous technological innovation and consistent and predictably reliable revenue achievement for the company. As an eight-time winner, DeEtte is part of an elite subset of Wash100 recipients who demonstrate leadership, vision, innovation and reliability with an impressive and nearly unparalleled consistency,” enthused Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic.
“DeEtte’s work helping CACI’s government customers achieve modernization is absolutely critical in this digital era. Her bold vision and knack for innovation are a welcome addition to our Wash100 list this year,” Garrettson, who also founded the award, added.
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Gray’s illustrious career includes stints at some of the most notable companies in the industry: she established herself with a meteoric rise over 13 years at Lockheed Martin, then led the intelligence and security business as its president at BAE Systems for nearly half a decade, before coming to CACI in 2017.
At CACI, she has propelled both the company and its clients forward with her futuristic, state of the art IT strategy.
Over the course of the last year, CACI has taken up and completed a number of transformative projects under Gray’s supervision. It developed and launched the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army for the U.S. Army, a new web-based program that replaces and streamlines 50 legacy human resources systems for the service branch. IPPS-A enables users to initiate, view, track and manage HR and pay transactions. CACI reportedly sorted and stabilized complex data and helped more than 800,000 users navigate the tool, all while protecting data privacy.
“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,” issued Gray.
Another landmark endeavor illustrative of Gray’s work is the Enterprise Information Technology as a Service Wave 1, a Department of the Air Force project that contracted CACI in June under a whopping $5.7 billion blanket purchase agreement. The award will find CACI bringing enterprise technology to more than 800,000 Air Force and Space Force service members, converting the department’s in-house, base-centric delivery IT services model into an advanced enterprise service delivery model.
“Our team is ready to work with the Air Force and Space Force to move Airmen and Guardians to more efficient and cost-effective as-a-service technology provisioning. We are eager to officially begin rolling out these foundational services with the department’s global stakeholder community,” Gray said at the time.
Executive Mosaic is deeply impressed by Gray’s contributions and thus more than happy to congratulate her and the team at CACI on her eighth Wash100 Award.
