What is the expected impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company's revenue in the next six months
 I think are tailwinds to things that we do. IT modernization, network security, network protection, how do we build networks out that will be more of a plus size. We -- I would expect us in the future that we can do more software development work in a very distributed manner, which not only relieve some of the pressures of government facilities to release the pressures on our facilities. And then we can talk about, something I love talking on, which is how do we come back to work from COVID. That is a tailwind as well.
So how we do classify software development in the future? How do we interact with our customers in the future? I honestly believe those are tailwinds. I don't know if you can measure that the next six months, some of these are going to take one to two to three years, some of the headwinds are going to be just how long will it be before we can redensify buildings and keep things like labs and operations centers safe. When we started COVID, go buy Clorox wipes. Right now with, I'm not really sure if you can get it from actually touching things. All those things, if you picture trying to keep a lab facility with 200 people or 300 people and it's safe, you need to have more than just shift work to sort of alleviate some of those risks.
So there's a lot that we don't know yet about COVID and its lasting effects. We will see some further headwinds there, but I'm actually more positive than I am negative based on where we sit today. We clearly we're more positive back in the January timeframe, but that wasn't so much COVID doing it to us. It was the actions we were taking as customers and providers as we were going through COVID. So I do believe that budgets around cyber and cyber-protection are going to continue to increase. I do think in some way the attack vectors and your tax space for cyber-attacks is going to get larger as we reshuffle where our work does, where our workforce does our work from. But -- so I'm actually more positive than I am a negative Mariana as we look for, because we're going to see budgets are going to support doing things differently and different things for us means greater and greater growth.
Mariana Perez Mora -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Thank you. And then would you mind giving us more color on this lower order processing is related to specific agencies, it's related to like technology versus expertise contracts, it's related contracts ramping up? What like -- what do we need to see for that to normalize?
John Mengucci -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Yes. On those deployment orders, so when we deploy folks overseas, we need to have folks processed during -- we need to have folks process through government facilities and government policies and different processing centers. When those centers can handle a 100, 200 people a day when those go to 10 to 20 people a week, that is an absolute, almost near shutdown. And for the limited number of flights that military transport, that all gets reduced as well. So, we're in that queue looking to be able to deploy people. So we can't deploy as quickly. So, will that loosen up as we go forward? Certainly, but then we'll have to take a look at the headwind around where are those large troop deployments that we're going to have overseas and how does CACI ride along with them.
So I don't have an exact, we're in over 60 to 80 different countries out there, prosecuting military operations around the globe. So, if we see the processing centers loosen up, we'll see revenue pick up as we go forward. But as it pertains to Afghanistan, it's about 2% of our annual revenue that we have under careful watch as we get into probably first and second quarter of FY 2022.
Operator
Our next question will come from Matt Sharpe with Morgan Stanley.
Matt Sharpe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Hey, good morning, gentlemen.
John Mengucci -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Matt.
Matt Sharpe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
I hate to beat this one to death, but I just want to touch on the margins once again, looking into Q4. If I back out the $16 mil
 I think are tailwinds to things that we do. IT modernization, network security, network protection, how do we build networks out that will be more of a plus size. We -- I would expect us in the future that we can do more software development work in a very distributed manner, which not only relieve some of the pressures of government facilities to release the pressures on our facilities. And then we can talk about, something I love talking on, which is how do we come back to work from COVID. That is a tailwind as well.
So how we do classify software development in the future? How do we interact with our customers in the future? I honestly believe those are tailwinds. I don't know if you can measure that the next six months, some of these are going to take one to two to three years, some of the headwinds are going to be just how long will it be before we can redensify buildings and keep things like labs and operations centers safe. When we started COVID, go buy Clorox wipes. Right now with, I'm not really sure if you can get it from actually touching things. All those things, if you picture trying to keep a lab facility with 200 people or 300 people and it's safe, you need to have more than just shift work to sort of alleviate some of those risks.
So there's a lot that we don't know yet about COVID and its lasting effects. We will see some further headwinds there, but I'm actually more positive than I am negative based on where we sit today. We clearly we're more positive back in the January timeframe, but that wasn't so much COVID doing it to us. It was the actions we were taking as customers and providers as we were going through COVID. So I do believe that budgets around cyber and cyber-protection are going to continue to increase. I do think in some way the attack vectors and your tax space for cyber-attacks is going to get larger as we reshuffle where our work does, where our workforce does our work from. But -- so I'm actually more positive than I am a negative Mariana as we look for, because we're going to see budgets are going to support doing things differently and different things for us means greater and greater growth.
Mariana Perez Mora -- Bank of America -- Analyst
 Thank you. And then would you mind giving us more color on this lower order processing is related to specific agencies, it's related to like technology versus expertise contracts, it's related contracts ramping up? What like -- what do we need to see for that to normalize?
John Mengucci -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Yes. On those deployment orders, so when we deploy folks overseas, we need to have folks processed during -- we need to have folks process through government facilities and government policies and different processing centers. When those centers can handle a 100, 200 people a day when those go to 10 to 20 people a week, that is an absolute, almost near shutdown. And for the limited number of flights that military transport, that all gets reduced as well. So, we're in that queue looking to be able to deploy people. So we can't deploy as quickly. So, will that loosen up as we go forward? Certainly, but then we'll have to take a look at the headwind around where are those large troop deployments that we're going to have overseas and how does CACI ride along with them.
So I don't have an exact, we're in over 60 to 80 different countries out there, prosecuting military operations around the globe. So, if we see the processing centers loosen up, we'll see revenue pick up as we go forward. But as it pertains to Afghanistan, it's about 2% of our annual revenue that we have under careful watch as we get into probably first and second quarter of FY 2022.
Operator
Our next question will come from Matt Sharpe with Morgan Stanley.
Matt Sharpe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Hey, good morning, gentlemen.
John Mengucci -- President & Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Matt.
Matt Sharpe -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
I hate to beat this one to death, but I just want to touch on the margins once again, looking into Q4. If I back out the $16 mil