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Watch: An Interview with CACI’s Darryl Burke at AFA’s vASC 2020

Oct. 5, 2020

Video: Air Force Association on YouTube.

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Darryl Burke, now senior vice president of business strategy at CACI, discusses CACI’s counter-unmanned aerial system, electronic warfare, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance offerings during a sponsored interview with Air Force Magazine Editor-in-Chief Tobias Naegele during the Air Force Association’s virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference.

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