Optical Communications Technology
The highly contested space environment demands secure, reliable, and resilient communications. CACI’s low-risk optical communication, sensing, and processing technology enables the success of some of our nation’s most critical missions from the battlefield to deep space.
American Ingenuity Across Orbits
Our multi-disciplinary teams, located in California, Florida, and New Jersey, design and build the most mature optical communications technologies right here in the United States. For more than two decades, we have developed advanced capabilities that meet and exceed U.S. government requirements – and are ready to deploy in support of deep space exploration and space operations from a variety of orbits, including low earth (LEO), medium earth (MEO), highly elliptical (HEO), and geostationary (GEO).
Whether it’s for land, air, or space, our people continually develop new applications for a range of missions – from tactical operations to national intelligence needs.
Operational Innovation in Space Today
CACI’s optical communication, sensing, and processing solutions are the U.S. government’s preferred choice for secure communications across several orbits and missions.
Regardless of the satellite manufacturer, CACI is often the secret ingredient to the most successful optical communications missions. We bring a rare synergy of research and development coupled with our valuable intellectual property to meet ever-increasing mission demands.
Our technologies increase efficiency through tradeoffs between range and bandwidth and enable low probability of intercept (LPI) and low probability of detection (LPD) with reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) and inherent immunity to radio frequency (RF) interference and jamming.
Meet CACI’s award-winning Vice President of Optical and Photonics Systems, Linda Braun.
Read Linda Braun’s latest commentary, “Lighting the Future: How CACI is Revolutionizing Optical and Photonic Solutions,” to learn more about our advancements in optical communications for our defense, intelligence, and other national security customers.
Photonics Across Domains
CACI produces advanced photonics-based communications, sensing, and processing technologies for space, air, land, and maritime environments. These include optical modems and terminals; high-power sources for free-space optical (FSO) communication and remote sensing; and space exploration systems.