About Us

The Columbia Group is a premier federal services support company with a successful history of providing the United States government and commercial entities with engineering, financial management, IT/Cyber, program management, acquisitions, human performance strategy, logistics, general business management, and training support services. With its principal office in Fairfax, Virginia and other locations in Washington, DC, The Columbia Group provides client-focused solutions across all armed forces in multiple locations across the United States.

Mission

To optimize performance for our clients through people, process, technology and engineered solutions. To develop human resources for tomorrow’s success.

Motto

Committed to Excellence, Dedicated to Customers

History

The Columbia Group can trace its roots back to 1967, when Columbia Research Corporation (CRC) was founded. For over 35 years, CRC supported many customers with expertise in engineering, logistics and acquisition.

Then, in 2005, President Martin Arase formed The Columbia Group by acquiring CRC and merging it with CPI, a financial management and information technology services provider he had founded in 1983.

The Columbia Group assumed the operations of AMSEC Rosenblatt’s Washington, DC office in June 2008, a division which specialized in naval architecture and marine engineering. This acquisition created the Columbia Group’s Rosenblatt Ship Design Division and expanded The Columbia Group’s naval architecture and marine engineering capability, adding ship and ship systems design to The Columbia Group’s service offerings.