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Acadis

Acadis (fka Envisage Technologies) is a software company located in Fountain Square Mall. While you would never know without looking, this is a company that might make the vast majority of their income from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We know for sure that since 2008, they have recieved $94 million from DHS. Specifically, $36 million of that comes from Customs and Border Patrol and $24 million from ICE. The rest of the $94 million is mostly from the DHS procurement office with much smaller sums coming from things like Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Secret Service. In the same period of time Acadis recieved only $8 million from their next biggest government customer, the Department of Justice.

These agencies are buying what appears to be a training platform. Acadis sells software that the agencies then use to build their trainings. On its face, this might not seem so bad. However, it is our stance that what matters is not what Acadis is selling to DHS its that they are selling to DHS at all. If what we’re seeing is a result of millions of dollars of training software than they’re even worse than we think.

A common objection to this is something along the lines of “would you protest Microsoft if ICE used Excel?” The simplest answer is that if Microsoft was based in Bloomington—and recieved incentives from the city like Acadis has (other sources below)—than yes, we would. The next simplest answer is that ICE has paid less to Microsoft ($19.4 million) than it has to Acadis since 2008. This kind of deflection is an attempt to paint Acadis’ software as so general as to be above reproach for collaboration with ICE but this doesn’t work. We don’t care whether the product is made to be very general or not; Bloomington must not be home to any companies selling products to a completely unaccountable agency like ICE.

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