 
After serving more than 30 years in the U.S. Army, Francisco J. Collazo, a native of Puerto Rico, founded COLSA Corporation in 1980 – beginning literally in his garage in Huntsville, Alabama. Mr. Collazo envisioned a distinctive kind of engineering and support services company.Read more... |
COLSA in the News |
By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times •
February 15, 2012
NASA has selected COLSA Corp. of Huntsville, for its Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) contract. The value of the contract, including all options, is $94.6 million. :
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August, 2011
COLSA was awarded a position on the Veterans Administration, Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) contract as part of the Bylight small business team. The total contract value is $12 billion dollars. The T4 contract, which has a performance-period of five years, will provide...
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July, 2011
COLSA is pleased to announce partnering with HP as part of the HP’s winning team for the NASA shared serves ACES contract. The HP Enterprise Services team won a $2.5 billion NASA contract to manage, secure and maintain its IT infrastructure across all of the agency’s research and flight centers.. :
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June, 2011
A member of the HOSC contract, Gary Dempsey, has been awarded the highest award which may be bestowed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States.. :
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By Stan Miller, CPP, Chairman, Mid-South Cpapter• April 20, 2011
The Mid-South Chapter has established the Hamblin-Talley Exceptional Service Award to recognize and honor the extroardinary sustained services provided by seteemed Mid-South Chapter members Paulette Hamblin, ISP and Charles Talley, ISP. :
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By George I. Seffers • Mar 11th, 2011
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recently announced the competitive award of five contracts for advisory and assistance services to five small businesses. Each contract has a ceiling of about $861 million. The five companies are: COLSA Corporation, Engineering Research and Consulting Incorporated, and Torch Technologies, all three of Hunstville, Alabama; Millennium Engineering and Integration Company, Arlington, Virginia; and DCS Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia. These companies will provide advisory and assistance services to the MDA Directorates for Engineering, Test, Advanced Technology, and Information Management and Technology Operations. The contractors will assist these directorates in providing engineering, technical analysis and support, scientific, systems engineering, test planning, and test execution activities in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The companies will have the opportunity to bid on each individual task order.
Article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database Article date: February 16, 2011
According to DOD: COLSA Corp., Huntsville, Ala., was awarded an estimated $51,351,954 contract modification for the Technical and Acquisition Management Support Program, which provides for a wide range of diverse non-engineering, technical and acquisition management support required in the acquisition, development, production, and support of various equipment.
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February, 2011
COLSA Corporation announced today that it has been awarded two contracts for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC). The first award was a fixed-firm price contract for operations and maintenance (O&M) of MSIC’s High Performance Computing System (HPCS) with the second award being a cost plus fixed fee contract for the development and sustainment (D&S) of MSIC Analytical Systems. The values of the contracts are $9M and $25M, respectively.
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January 25, 2011
COLSA is pleased to announce that they are part of the VT Milcom-led team that has been given one of four awards on the Global Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) contract by Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, CA.
The contract value is $843,303,609 with two option years that give the contract a potential cumulative value of $1,386,039,973.
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January 18, 2011
COLSA Corporation today announced that it has received a 2010 Boeing
Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize
suppliers who have achieved superior performance
“This marks the second consecutive year that COLSA has received a Boeing Performance
Excellence Award and demonstrates COLSA’s ongoing dedication to providing excellent service
and to ensuring our customers are completely satisfied,”
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Jan 12, 2011 7:59 AM by Bea Karnes
Hewlett-Packard got its start in a garage in Palo Alto, while Apple blossomed in the garage of Steve Jobs' parents in Los Altos.
Add COLSA Corp. to the list of companies with a humble beginning, displacing the family vehicles in favor of future success.
Following a 30 year career in the U.S. Army, Francisco J. Collazo, originally from Puerto Rico, founded COLSA Corporation in his Huntsville, Ala. garage in 1980.
COLSA is an engineering and support services company with operations in six locations including Huntsville, Colorado Springs, San Diego and Washington, D.C.
A government contractor, COLSA's primary customers are NASA, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Missile Defense Agency.
In Colorado Springs the company has about three dozen employees, with three job postings currently on the company's website. Local workers provide exercise and war game support, specialized software development and a host of engineering applications from analysis to build-out to support.
COLSA is highly regarded. In 2008 it was one of 23 companies awarded the James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award, awarded by the Defense Security Service (DSS). Considering there are more than 12,000 defense contractors, the distinction is prestigious.
COLSA has also been named the top minority-owned high technology firm in the nation.
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August 27, 2010
COLSA Corporation has been selected as a recipient of the 2010 NASA Small Business Industry Award (SBIA) for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in the category of Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year
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August 10, 2010
The Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) in Huntsville, Ala., conceived the Multipurpose Nanomissile system as a liquid-fueled core booster augmented by various strap-on solid-rocket motors
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August 2010
COLSA Corporation has been awarded a Contract for Space and Missile Capabilities (CSMC) by the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
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July 30, 2010
COLSA Corporation would like to announce that they are a part of the Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) team to support the US Army CECOM Rapid Response - Third Generation (R2-3G) program. The contract is designed to provide all defense and federal civilian agencies with solutions for critical hardware, software, systems management, and rapid response requirements. Contract Award amount is $6,400,000,000.
May 14, 2010
COLSA Corporation teamed with Enterprise Information Services, Inc. (EIS) would like to announce that the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), awarded 11 IDIQ contracts for support of its Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (SITE) contract vehicle. The total award value is $6,600,000,000.
May, 2010
COLSA Corporation has been awarded a Technical and Acquisition Management Support (TAMS) 4 contract at the Air Armament Center, Eglin AFB by the U.S. Air Force : read more >>
January 11, 2010
COLSA Corporation is pleased to announce that they are a part of the Northrop Grumman-led team that the US Army Material Command awarded a $114,791,298 Contract. This contract is to develop the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS).
January 5, 2010
COLSA Corporation today announced that it has received a 2009 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance :
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November 24, 2009
The Department of the Army PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (STRI) Contracting Office has announced COLSA Corporation as the winner of the Delivery Order 0002 on the STOC II Contract (#W900KK-09-D-0310). The Digital Integration Lab Support (DIL) was awarded as a Prime Contractor contract for $1,689,835.
September 11, 2009
COLSA Corporation announces that they have re-won the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) Contract at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, CO for Space and Missile Defense Initiatives Support Scientific Engineering and Technical Assistance Program (SMDIS III). COLSA Corporation was awarded as Prime Contractor for $450,000,000.
April 1, 2009
COLSA Corporation would like to announce the launch of COLSA Solutions, Inc., a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of COLSA Corporation. COLSA Solutions designs, supplies, and installs state of the art solutions, including biometric applications, asset tracking and smart cards and provides operator training and full maintenance for systems sized for and expandable as your company’s needs change. COLSA Solutions offers Access Control, Intrusion Detection, Video Surveillance, turnstiles and Intercom Systems and is an Authorized GSA Service Provider for GE Security / UTC under the GSA Contract GS-07F-0450K.
For further information go to http://www.colsasolutions.com/1511.html
March 1, 2009
Four organizations - Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army ARDEC, Ball Aerospace and COLSA Corp. - were the largest participants in NDIA's Configuration and Data Management Certification program for...) :
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January 27, 2009
COLSA Corporation
was notified today that it has been awarded a Simulation
and Training Omnibus Contract (STOC II) by the U.S.
Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation Training
and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) :
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December 21, 2008
Changing of the guard... Courtesy of the Huntsville Times :
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November 20, 2008
COLSA Corporation received the Better Business Bureau of North Alabama’s Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics at the 11th Annual Awards Luncheon on November 20, 2008. COLSA was recognized for our four key corporate values which include teamwork, integrity, customer satisfaction, and treating our employees as our most valuable resource.
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October 2, 2008
COLSA Corporation’s president, Clarence A. Tidwell, was officially presented the prestigious Cogswell Award today at the COLSA corporate headquarters in Cummings Research Park. Al Sanchez, the Defense Security Service (DSS) Regional Director, Dallas, Texas, along with Michael Brown, Huntsville’s DSS Field Chief, presented the award to Tidwell and COLSA’s Security Manager, Charles J. Talley.
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September 25, 2008
COLSA Corporation has been named Marshall Space Flight Center’s Small Business Prime Contract of the Year for 2008 in recognition of our exemplary support of the Huntsville Operation Support Center (HOSC). read read more >>
July 7, 2008
The COLSA Campus is growing in Huntsville, Alabama. Located in Cummings Research Park, the new corporate building was completed in June 2008.
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April 16, 2008
The Volunteer Center of Huntsville hosted the 2008 Partners for Charity Volunteer of the Year Awards ceremony where COLSA Corporation was awarded the Volunteer Corporation of the Year Award.
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January, 2008
COLSA Corporation is the first teammate (out of 365) on SAIC’s AMCOM EXPRESS contract to receive all three teammate certifications.
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December 21, 2007
COLSA Corporation has been selected to receive the 2007 World Class Supplier Award from Northrop Grumman Corporation. The award is given to “suppliers who have consistently demonstrated outstanding achievements and support of Northrop Grumman programs.”
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October 23, 2007
COLSA Corporation was honored at Northrop Grumman’s Third Annual Supplier Excellence Award ceremony on October 23, 2007, at the Ritz Carlton in Tyson’s Corner, VA, by receiving one of ten Supplier Excellence Awards.
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September 17, 2007
COLSA Corporation is pleased to announce the award of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Advanced Research Center (ARC). COLSA Corporation Contract was awarded on September 17, 2007 for a 2 year base period and 8 potential option years. The second year of performance began on September 18, 2008 and will be up for recompete in FY2016-17.
March 2, 2007
NASA gave COLSA Corp. a contract worth up to $49 million if all options are exercised, the company said yesterday. NASA gave COLSA Corp. a contract worth up to $49 million if all options are.... read more >>
November 8, 2005
ARCADIA, Calif. & HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- COLSA Corp., a provider of high-performance computing systems and services to government agencies, has completed upgrading the world's largest Apple-based....
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