The Columbia Group’s program management services provide leading edge tools, processes, and expertise focused on the government shipbuilding industry.  An experienced and analytical approach to project management leads to collecting the right metrics to provide accurate benchmarking and organizational assessments to drive project success. From the initial project planning through final test and evaluation, The Columbia Group manages cost, maintains schedule, mitigates risk, and promotes quality to insure stakeholder value for both internal and external customers.

In addition to being knowledgeable of all types of ship systems, the staff of our Rosenblatt Ship Design Division has extensive shipboard operating and design experience and consequently understands the end user’s perspective.  In addition to detail designs, we provide logistics solutions that ensure that the new systems can be effectively and efficiently operated.  We have performed numerous alteration designs for:

  • Systems Engineering
  • Scheduling
  • Risk Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Requirements Management
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Quality Management
  • Earned Value Management
  • Cost Estimating and Budgeting
  • Communication Management
  • Maintenance Planning
  • Technology and Market Surveys
  • Strategic Planning
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Business Process Reengineering
  • Business Intelligence
  • Root Cause Analysis