Month: March 2023

RESTON, Va., March 2, 2023 /3BL Media/ – CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced that Fortune magazine has recognized it as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for 2023 commemorating CACI’s 6th consecutive year on the list and its 12th appearance since the list’s inception. CACI ranked 8th among Information Technology Services companies worldwide.

CACI received top rankings in Fortune’s survey criteria for the quality of its technology and expertise offerings and management. CACI was also recognized for its long-term investment value. CACI was chosen from among approximately 1,500 global companies considered by Fortune.

“CACI is at the forefront of delivering next-generation technology and expertise that will help secure our nation for years to come. Our standing among Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies for a 6th consecutive year is the result of our strong commitment to hiring and retaining industry-leading talent, delivering innovation to our customers, and providing value to our shareholders,” said John Mengucci, CACI President and Chief Executive Officer. “We thank our employees for their dedication and are extremely proud of the complex national security challenges we address each and every day.”

Fortune, in partnership with the global management consulting firm Korn Ferry, surveyed approximately 4,000 corporate executives and directors to compile the Most Admired rankings. A company must score in the top half of its industry group to be included on the list.

As a leading national security company, CACI continues to expand its presence globally with meaningful career opportunities offering world class expertise and technology offerings for its government customers. Recently, CACI was also named a Top Workplace USA company for its leadership, culture, and benefits.

ABOUT CACI

CACI’s approximately 22,000 talented employees are vigilant in providing the unique expertise and distinctive technology that address our customers’ greatest enterprise and mission challenges. Our culture of good character, innovation, and excellence drives our success and earns us recognition as a Fortune World’s Most Admired Company. As a member of the Fortune 1000 Largest Companies, the Russell 1000 Index, and the S&P MidCap 400 Index, we consistently deliver strong shareholder value. Visit us at www.caci.com.

There are statements made herein which do not address historical facts, and therefore could be interpreted to be forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in CACI’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, and other such filings that CACI makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Any forward-looking statements should not be unduly relied upon and only speak as of the date hereof.

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Corporate Communications and Media:
Lorraine Corcoran
Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications
(703) 434-4165, lorraine.corcoran@caci.com

Investor Relations:
Daniel Leckburg
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
(703) 841-7666, dleckburg@caci.com

Source: CACI International Inc

This blog comes to us from Amber Yandow, a data science subject matter expert, coach, mentor, and instructor, who has worked with Cisco to develop Introduction to Data Science curriculum, now available for free on Skills for All from Cisco Networking Academy. You can learn more about Amber’s journey on the Women Rock-IT replay of “What’s So Exciting About Data Science?” . Amber joins at the 23:14 mark.

As a data scientist, my job is to analyze data to help solve problems. And as the world digitizes—with not only mobile devices, but sensors and other IoT (Internet of Things) technologies like wearables—the quantity of data available is growing exponentially.

International Data Corporation forecasts that by 2025 the global datasphere will be 163 zettabytes, up from 16.1 zettabytes in 2016, and that the average connected person will interact with connected devices nearly 4,800 times a day.

With that quantity of data being generated and collected, data privacy is increasingly important. Data Privacy Day, which was instituted by The Council of Europe in 2007 as Data Protection Day, January 28th each year, is as good a day as any to contemplate what this means.

The Value of Data

Data is generally collected in one of three ways:

Observations—Scientists, analysts and even marketers observe customer behavior and record it.Inferences—Data can be inferred based on a users’ search history, purchases or social media activity.Volunteered—People provide data to organizations through surveys and forms.

Once data has been collated it can be used to solve problems and answer questions. Data science relies on data that relates to the problem you are trying to solve or the question you are trying to answer, so personally identifiable information (PII) is not necessary in many instances. The important thing is that the data is representative of the problem you are solving. It is imperative for a data scientist to be able to recognize when to exclude data, for instance, to avoid errors or biases in artificial intelligence and machine learning environments.

Why Data Privacy is so Important

Data is typically stored on local servers or on the cloud. It’s a company’s ethical and legal responsibility to take care of the privacy aspect. Many times that responsibility will fall under the data engineer or database administrators’ purview.

Anonymizing data by removing or encrypting direct identifiers to individuals, such as a person’s full name, address, email, personal identification number, physical description, or biometric info—the PII—and preventing the ability to reidentify them, is one way of ensuring data privacy.

McKinsey argues that effective regulation of data anonymization is actually an opportunity, by reducing the risks to individuals and organizations, while making data more available for analysis.

Data protection laws vary from country to country, but there are common practices such as: Having a data loss prevention and data discovery strategy; frequent backups; built-in protections such as replication, firewalls, encryption, authorization and authentication; and erasure and recovery strategies.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) arguably has the widest reach. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights stipulates that EU citizens have the right to protection of their personal data, and under the GDPR 1,031 fines were issued in the year to March 2022, totaling €1.581 billion.

It should be noted that these fines were not levied against cyber criminals, but well-known corporations for breaches of the rules such as insufficient legal basis for data processing; non-compliance with general data processing principles; and insufficient technical and organizational measures to ensure information security.

As an individual online, what can you do?

There are many things you can do to secure your data. The most basic things are to:

Use strong passwords, at least 11 characters long with a mixture of upper- and lower-case letters, symbols and numbers—it would take a cyber-criminal at least 400 years to crack your password that met these conditions. Longer passwords make it even harder.Back up your dataDon’t open suspicious emailsNever provide personal data like a government ID number over the phone

Josh McCloud, Cisco’s National Cybersecurity Officer in Singapore has some great cybersecurity tips online. Or you could explore the subject in greater depth by enrolling in Cisco Networking Academy’s free Introduction to Cybersecurity course, designed to make cybersecurity awareness available for all.

If, like me, you are curious about the world around you and have an interest in problem-solving, all the data being collected represents an enormous opportunity to improve communities and organizations in every corner of the globe.

What’s so great about data science?

Introduction to Data Science is a primer course from Cisco Networking Academy that myself and a team of learning scientists developed to allow anyone to get their feet wet in the data science field. You can learn about data science at a high level and in an intuitive and interactive way for free on our ‘mobile-first’ Skills for All learning platform.

Data science affects our lives in numerous ways:

In the entertainment industry, data science is responsible for classification algorithms that help viewers find videos they like. Based on their profile, including what videos they’ve watched, and what other customers with similar tastes have watched, the algorithms serve up recommendations.The fitness app on your smartphone, or fitness tracker, collects data fed into an application that can provide you with valuable health information. To calculate how many steps you take during a day or the distance you walk, these apps must build a model of your movements to identify what constitutes taking a step and the distance you cover with each one. Some fitness trackers are even using self-learning artificial intelligence (AI) software that can recognize and adapt to a wide variety of movements and is able to learn new fitness activities that are based on repetitive, cyclical patterns.In agriculture, farmers use cellphones to provide researchers with images of plant diseases. These images are used in image recognition systems to diagnose the diseases, and combined with environmental data regression, algorithms are then used to predict future outbreaks.And in medicine, researchers have developed a machine learning model that uses probability to classify breast cancer by examining medical histopathology images. This approach may eventually be capable of detecting cancer subtypes and classifying benign and malignant tissue.

Data science is a powerful tool for good, and these are just a few examples of its application. On the surface, the cost of data privacy may appear to be an impediment to the potential advances that data science can bring. However, data privacy gives data scientists social license to use that tool responsibly. Everybody wins.

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By Virginia Brown

Thousands of solar panels now line an 8-acre plot in Shelbyville, Ind., converting an undeveloped field into a clean energy factory.

The Blue River Solar Facility is the first in Duke Energy Indiana’s pilot solar program, which makes it easier for businesses, schools and nonprofits to use clean, renewable energy.

Duke Energy installs, operates, owns and maintains the system, while customers receive kilowatt-hour and solar renewable energy credit output, up to an initial limit of 1 megawatt.

“The company gets the benefits, including renewable energy credits that go with it,” said Jim Hummel, a Duke Energy renewables manager, “but they don’t have to have that big, upfront capital investment. It’s a lease program.”

The utility announced the solar services project in 2019. Once enrolled in the program, eligible Indiana customers can hook up to the on-site solar system for 20 years for a monthly fee.

Toray Resin Co., a plastics manufacturer and subsidiary of Toray Industries, was the first business to go online.

A few years ago, the Tokyo-based company announced its environmental impact goals: to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030, and to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

“Our primary carbon footprint is attached to the electricity that we consume,” said Scott Hickman, general manager at Toray Resin Co. “But we knew it was going to be very difficult for us to get to a net-zero basis by 2050 if our energy suppliers aren’t doing something similar.”

That’s where Duke Energy, which has its own companywide goals of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, comes in.

“Just as we were trying to figure out how we can take advantage of solar,” Hickman said, “this opportunity to partner with Duke Energy came about.”

At Toray, the program is major news: The story will be featured in the winter edition of the company magazine that circulates to its 48,000 employees.

“We are starting to see more and more customers that have their own, strong environmental sustainability goals,” said Hummel, who has been with Duke Energy for over 30 years.

Construction on the Blue River Solar Facility began in October 2021 and was completed in August 2022. The project hit some snags during the COVID-19 pandemic, including supply chain hiccups, material shortages, and disruptions in the workforce.

Duke Energy Account Executive Rick Smith helped shepherd the project through these hurdles.

“We recognized that we had a unique opportunity to work hand-in-hand with Toray Resin to help power their operations in a sustainable and cost-effective way, while also making progress toward a cleaner energy future,” Smith said.

“As the first of anything, there’s always challenges and hurdles,” Hickman said, “but that is to be expected.”

For the Toray site, Jeff Bladen, Duke Energy project manager, oversaw the installation, which included engineering, organizing contractors, and other considerations, like maintaining easement distances from railroad tracks and power poles.

Today, roughly 2,500 panels, each 6 feet tall, 3 1/2 feet wide and 1 1/2 inches thick, fill the lot.

“The solar array also helps with the production that we would normally produce from our plant and reduces that load on the grid,” Bladen said. “Plus, they get the clean power to use every day.”

At capacity, the site would generate up to 900 kilowatts of solar energy to help power operations, while offsetting carbon emissions.

“As the utility, it’s our job to listen to what customers need to meet their goals,” Hummel said, “and provide them with products that will help them get there.”

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KeyBank has been named to Mentor New York’s 2023 Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll. The New York State Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll is a network of community-minded businesses that believe in the power of mentoring and the mission of MENTOR New York.

Companies on the honor roll have demonstrated corporate excellence in their support of mentoring in the following ways:

Involved in a corporate mentoring initiative;Interested in developing a mentoring program; and/orDedicated to supporting mentoring in their corporate goodwill portfolio in the future.

Across New York, KeyBank supports mentoring and mentoring initiatives in many ways. Through board service and volunteerism, teammates engage in mentoring activities in the communities KeyBank serves. In addition, the KeyBank Foundation provides funding to non-profits that provide mentoring opportunities for elementary, high school and college students, and to individuals who are part of workforce development programs. Organizations that have received support include:

City Year BuffaloRochester Regional Health Nursing Workforce Development ProgramCapital Region Chamber of Commerce Jubilee Homes of Syracuse Inc.’s Build to Work (B2W) program

KeyBank also has a broad range of career development and mentoring programs that support our teammates in their professional development.

Learn more about KeyBank’s commitment to helping clients and communities thrive