You transferred to another CACI project two weeks ago, but an application from your previous assignment still opens normally.
Your old workspace is there. Files are visible. Maybe you can even perform the same actions you could before the transfer.
It’s easy to assume that if the system still allows access, the access must still be valid.
That’s not a safe assumption.
Technical access and current authorization are two different things. When an assignment changes, application permissions may not disappear at exactly the same moment.
A Working Account Doesn’t Prove You Still Need It
Imagine your transition looks like this:
September 30 — last day on Project Alpha
October 1 — Project Bravo becomes effective
October 8 — Alpha application still opens
The October 8 login doesn’t change the September 30 end date.
It may simply mean that deprovisioning hasn’t been completed yet.
The important question is no longer whether your credentials work.
It’s whether Project Alpha access is still required for your current authorized responsibilities.
If the answer is no, continued technical availability shouldn’t be treated as permission to keep using the system.
Transfers Can Leave an Overlap Period
Not every project transition happens instantly across every application.
Your primary assignment may change first.
Then the new project provisions its required applications.
Old accounts may be removed through another process.
For a short period, you could therefore see both environments.
That overlap can be legitimate when there is an authorized handoff. For example, you may still need to complete specific transition activities for the previous team.
But an overlap should have a business reason.
“Both applications still appear in CACI Apps” is not itself that reason.
Don’t Keep Checking the Old Project Out of Curiosity
After spending months or years on a project, it can feel completely normal to open its resources.
You know the people. You know the work. You may even want to see how something turned out after you left.
Once that information is no longer required for your assignment, curiosity isn’t a work requirement.
The same principle applies to saved bookmarks and direct application URLs.
A link continuing to work doesn’t establish that the underlying access remains appropriate.
A Handoff Should Have Boundaries
Sometimes the new project begins while the previous team still needs limited help.
That should be treated as an actual transition arrangement rather than an indefinite extension of the old assignment.
Suppose Project Alpha asks you to spend two hours Wednesday documenting an unfinished task after you have moved to Bravo.
The useful questions are specific:
Are you authorized to continue supporting Alpha for that task?
How should those two hours be recorded?
Which resources do you still need?
When does the remaining support end?
This is much cleaner than informally continuing to work in Alpha whenever someone from the old team sends a message.
Old Access Can Be Partial
Deprovisioning doesn’t always look like an account disappearing completely.
An old application might still open while particular folders, functions, or datasets no longer do.
Or your account may remain visible while the project-specific role has been removed.
Don’t try to work around those restrictions.
If your transition duties genuinely require something that is no longer available, report exactly what is needed and why.
For example:
“I have an authorized Project Alpha transition task through October 4, but I no longer have access to the workspace containing the required documentation.”
That’s a specific business-access problem.
New Access and Old Access Are Separate Issues
Another common mistake is connecting the two unnecessarily.
You transfer to Project Bravo.
Bravo’s required application isn’t available yet.
Alpha still works.
That doesn’t make Alpha a substitute for Bravo.
Don’t continue performing unrelated work through an old environment simply because the new environment isn’t ready.
Report the missing Bravo access through the appropriate process.
The fact that an unrelated old account still works doesn’t solve the provisioning problem.
Don’t Move Project Information Yourself
When switching assignments, it may seem convenient to download material from the old environment so you can continue using it on the new project.
That can create obvious problems.
Information associated with one customer or project shouldn’t be copied into another environment merely because the same employee works on both assignments.
Use the approved project procedures for any information that genuinely needs to be transferred.
The fact that you personally created a document doesn’t automatically mean you can move it wherever you want.
Its project context matters.
Equipment and Applications Don’t Always Transition Together
A project change can involve more than software.
An employee may retain the same company equipment while application permissions change, or a project may have separate customer resources that need to be returned or reassigned.
Don’t use possession of a device as evidence that every account accessible from it remains authorized.
Likewise, returning project-specific equipment doesn’t necessarily mean every associated application account has already been disabled.
These processes can occur on different timelines.
Report Access That Clearly Should Have Ended
If an old project application remains available well after your responsibilities there have ended, don’t simply ignore the situation indefinitely.
Provide enough information to identify the obsolete access:
Previous project
Assignment end date
Application or resource still available
Current project
Whether any authorized transition work remains
You don’t need to investigate the backend yourself.
You just need to make the mismatch clear.
Your Current Assignment Is the Better Reference Point
After a transfer, it helps to stop thinking about access as a collection of applications attached permanently to your employee account.
Access exists because you need particular resources to perform authorized work.
Projects change.
Responsibilities change.
Required systems change with them.
Some permissions will be added and others should eventually disappear.
That means the question isn’t:
“Can I still open it?”
The better question is:
“Do I still need and have authorization to use it for my current work?”
A system can technically let you in after a CACI project transfer.
That doesn’t turn yesterday’s project access into permanent access.