Category Capabilities

Training Analysis and Assessment

The Columbia Group analyzes and assesses projects in development as well as currently existing courses and programs. We incorporate lessons learned and our proven best practices into each course development or revision. Highlights of our analysis and assessment experience include:

• Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL)  Lessons Learned Integration (L2I) Support at TRADOC Schools and Centers
• Post-Combat Survey Support at Maneuver Center of Excellence
• Ranger Instructor Certification Program at Maneuver Center of Excellence
• Mobilization Readiness Training at Fort Benning, GA
• Theater Specific Individual Readiness Training at Fort McCoy, WI
• Aviation Safety Inspector Training at Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, OKC, OK
• FEMA Search and Rescue Training at multiple locations across the US
• Digital WarFighting Experiment at Fort Leavenworth, KS

Training

The Columbia Group offers a variety of training solutions to meet objectives in all learning domains. Offering support to multiple customers across the DOD as well as the Federal Aviation Administration for more than 25 years, The Columbia Group provides training delivery solutions from producing e-learning courseware, to instructing live-fire range training, to developing apps for the Warfighter.

Our training capabilities include:

• Instructional Design and Development
• Training Mission Analysis and Assessment
• Training Delivery and Instructor Support
• Training Management and Support Services

What Our Clients Say About Us

Strategic Communications Support

Concise, Creative, Timely, and Targeted.

Strategic communication is critical to the success of any organization and its initiatives. In today’s world with unlimited information at everyone’s fingertips – 24×7 – it’s easy for no information or misinformation to confuse audiences, create misperceptions and derail progress. The Columbia Group helps to ensure strategic planning, development and execution of cost-effective communications to deliver powerful results for an organization, its leadership, projects and programs. From face-to-face, to traditional print and broadcast, to web-enabled and social media communication vehicles, we have the professional resources to drive your communications success.

Communications capabilities include:

• Strategic communications planning
• Senior officer/executive speech and presentation support
• Program/Project/Change management communications for business initiatives
• Media/Public Relations – press management, press releases, articles for publication
• Social media strategies and execution – Facebook, Twitter, blogs
• Website conceptualization, development and content management
• Print collateral – brochures, posters, advertisements,  signage, meeting/seminar support
• Outreach Events – trade shows/conferences/reward and recognition
• Graphic and visual/video design and production management
• Rescue/emergency communications – for crisis situations, reverse declining image or perception

The Columbia Group brings talent whose expertise was gained in the public and private sectors and from engagements across the Department of Defense. Whether you need support for a single speech, a short-term project, or a multi-year, multi-faceted global program requiring every aspect of communications for strategic, operational and tactical support, we can tailor efforts to meet your timeline and budget, exceed expectations and deliver powerful results.

Integrated Program Management

The Columbia Group provides business, technical, and integrated program management services within a broad scope of functional areas for the Department of Defense (DOD) and other federal departments and agencies. We provide support within the individual functional areas as well as cross-functional integration and management. We focus on synchronizing the functional and cross-functional program activities and de-conflicting competing needs. We also work to harmonize the interests of stakeholders external to the customer organization.

We work to balance the many factors influencing our customers’ cost, schedule, and performance using industry standard practices as well as innovative solutions tailored to a specific customer. Our support offerings range from full, stand-alone capabilities, to multiple levels of assistance to a customer’s existing activities.

We also provide integrated program planning and management support to non-DOD customers, drawing up on our knowledge and experience with DOD programs to create effective solutions in the non-DOD world.

Functional Service Areas

Cross Functional Service Areas