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Columbia Research Laboratories manufactures a broad variety of sensors and associated signal conditioning electronics that include force balance inertial-grade accelerometers and inclinometers, piezoelectric vibration and pressure sensors, strain gage aircraft mainframe fatigue sensors, precision linear variable differential transducers, and fiber optic sensors. Columbia is dedicated to providing the most reliable sensors and systems for the military, commercial and industrial markets. We accomplish this by maintaining our focus on the performance demands of our market, by prioritizing quality monitoring and control throughout the manufacturing process, and by striving to exceed our customers' expectations for service and support. Throughout the years Columbia has remained a customer-driven organization. Our philosophy of responding to the specific needs of our customers for performance, cost, size and timely delivery has resulted in a competitive advantage that has enabled long-term sustained success. Columbia strives to limit our dependence on outside subcontractors by building and expanding in-house capabilities. This philosophy has allowed Columbia to respond to our customers' product development and production modification needs with substantially less impact to lead time schedules and associated costs than our competition. Every year since 1957, Columbia transducers and systems have been flight-qualified and performance proven on major United States Government military programs, in-flight missile systems and/or interplanetary manned and unmanned space vehicles. Columbia transducers and systems have been subjected to the most technically demanding in-flight qualification test requirements for performance and reliability under some of the most severe environmental conditions. In addition, Columbia transducers are used extensively in industrial control and monitoring systems, where rugged construction, low "oem" cost and long accurate performance life are the criteria. Columbia has participated in many military programs over the years. We have concentrated our efforts on supplying sensors for military aircraft and missile systems as well as commercial applications with demanding environments. One of our most prestigious endeavors was the design and production of gold-plated airborne vibration systems utilized on every lunar excursion module of the Apollo Program. We have supplied operational sensors utilized to measure vibration, acceleration, temperature and strain on a long list of military aircraft including the A-10, AV-8, B-52, F-16, F-18 and F-117. We have supplied acceleration, vibration and tilt sensors on many of our country's most sophisticated military missile systems including the Mark 12, Mark 21, GBU-15, AGM-130, AMRAM, Hellfire, ALCM, SLCM, Trident I & II, ASROC, Pershing II, MX and SICBM. Additionally, we supply operational sensors for many satellite launch vehicles including the ATLAS II. We plan to continue to add to this list of programs as Columbia continues beyond our first 50 years.