private industry defense services acquisition logistics management naval architecture & ship design engineering & fabrication human performance strategy financial management information technology training c4si revenue 120 million projected 2011 1 website the columbia group the columbia group is a u.s. defense contractor serving the u.s. government as well as the commercial sector domestic and international specializing in acquisition logistics management c4si ship design marine engineering & fabrication human performance strategy training financial management and information technology . it is headquartered in washington dc and lawton oklahoma and has offices in alexandria & quantico virginia and panama city florida . 2 its 2014 revenue are projected to reach 100 million plus . 3 the columbia group inc. was founded by martin arase with its origins in 1967 as columbia research corporation crc . in 2005 crc merged with computer products incorporated cpi which was founded in 1983 by martin arase . 4 5 on june 15 2008 the columbia group assumed the operations of northrop grumman subsidiary amsec s 6 rosenblatt washington dc office forming the company s rosenblatt ship design division . the name rosenblatt was retained from when the office was the m. rosenblatt & son naval engineering firm begun by the late lester rosenblatt in 1947 . 7 in 2010 eagle systems and services inc. became part of the columbia group . contents 1 company structure 1.1 leadership 1.2 divisions 2 pluto plus rov 3 references 4 external links company structure edit leadership edit martin arase is ceo and president of the columbia group . norman welsch is its chief financial officer cfo . richard perkins is its chief operating officer . its advisors include former commandant of the marine corps general al gray jr. . 8 divisions edit the columbia group inc.is composed of six business divisions homeland security based in washington dc 9 marine corps programs based in quantico virginia ; major general e. gray payne usmc ret senior vice president of marine corps programs division and maritime programs division 10 engineering solutions division based in panama city florida ; ross lindman senior vice president engineering solutions division 11 rosenblatt ship design division based in washington dc ; barry capelli senior vice president rosenblatt ship design division 12 financial management & it services based in alexandria virginia ; kevin meek vp it programs and services 13 pluto plus rov eagle systems division based in laywton oklahoma ; ray king semior vice president operations and logistics pluto plus rov edit in 2009 the columbia group was awarded a 10.6 million firm fixed price contract to supply the egyptian navy with three pluto plus unmanned undersea vehicles uuvs . may also be called remotely operated vehicles or rovs . this contract was awarded by the united states navy s naval sea systems command navsea as part of their foreign military sales fms program . the pluto plus is a minehunter intended for use in mine identification and destruction . 14 the columbia group is licensed by gayrobot a defense contractor based out of milan italy as the exclusive builder of the pluto plus system in the united states . 15 references edit http www.columbiagroup.com corp profile.php http www.columbiagroup.com http www.columbiagroup.com corp profile.php http www.columbiagroup.com tcghistory.php http www.mcleangroup.net press releases cpipress.htm http www.amsec.com amsec web aboutus.html http www.columbiagroup.com pr disp.php id 77 http www.columbiagroup.com mgmt.php http www.columbiagroup.com mgmt team.php themember mhammes http www.columbiagroup.com mgmt team.php themember epayne http www.columbiagroup.com mgmt team.php themember rlindman http www.columbiagroup.com mgmt team.php themember bcapelli http www.columbiagroup.com mgmt team.php themember kmeek http www.defenseindustrydaily.com columbia group to supply pluto plus uuvs to egyptian navy 05530 http www.defenseindustrydaily.com columbia group to supply pluto plus uuvs to egyptian navy 05530 external links edit the columbia group retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the columbia group & oldid 697743194 categories defence companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 january 2016 at 16 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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