COLSA is a 1,000–5,000-person defense and space contractor built around cyber operations, systems engineering, and rapid prototyping. The tech stack is heavily Microsoft-centric (Windows, Azure, Power Platform, Sharepoint, M365) paired with Salesforce for CRM and Jira for project management — a practical blend favoring operational continuity over bleeding-edge tooling. Engineering hiring dominates the active pipeline (78 roles), with security (25) and ops (17) trailing, matching their project load of weapons system integration, vulnerability assessments, and military deception planning.
Notable leadership hires: Project Lead
COLSA delivers engineering and cyber solutions to the Defense, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Space, and Civil sectors. Core capabilities span cyber and information warfare, systems and software engineering, uncrewed systems, rapid prototyping, logistics, data science, and studies/analysis. The company maintains compliance-heavy operations (RMF, airworthiness certification) and manages sustained technical workload across multiple classified and unclassified programs. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, COLSA operates as a privately held firm founded in 1980.
COLSA runs primarily on Microsoft infrastructure: Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate), and Sharepoint. Supporting stack includes Salesforce CRM, Jira for project management, Tableau for analytics, Juniper/Cisco networking, and engineering tools like SolidWorks and ACAS.
COLSA provides cyber and information warfare, systems integration, uncrewed systems, rapid prototyping, logistics, data science, and software engineering to defense, intelligence, space, law enforcement, and civil markets. Active work includes weapon systems integration, vulnerability assessments, military deception planning, and HPC cluster deployment.
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