On March 1, 1989, CALIBRE opened its doors for business with 44 employees, three contract vehicles, and $3.8 million in on-going projects, all novated by agreement from Management Consulting & Research, Inc. Our project teams completed four projects using 286 PCs with 4 MB RAM and 20 MB hard disks, a few dot matrix printers, no LAN (the "sneaker net" was the approved methodology for printing and file sharing), and WordPerfect 5.1 and LOTUS 1-2-3 software. CALIBRE closed its first year of business at $4.9 million. Today, CALIBRE has 533 employees and revenues of $98.5e million.

CALIBRE established its ESOP in March 1994. There are now nearly 400 participants in the Plan. In 1997, the ESOP attained the majority ownership position (62.7%) and today owns 92.2% of the company. In 2001, CALIBRE consolidated its office staff located at Skyline Center in Falls Church, Virginia; Hedges Run, Woodbridge, Virginia; and Occoquan, Virginia, at our new headquarters at Metro Park in Alexandria, Virginia. This space is designed to meet our needs well into the future. CALIBRE also has employees on-site with customers at many locations nationwide and overseas.  In 2004, CALIBRE enhanced its capabilities and added to its staff and operating locations by acquiring Strategic Management Initiatives, Inc., and the Environmental Technology Solutions Division of Project Performance Corporation.  UNITY was acquired in 2007. Cizer Software Corporation was also acquired in 2007 and now operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Today, we are financially healthy, solidly competent in our areas of expertise, intriguing to a host of new customers, and sought after by current customers for repeat engagements. We meet the business outcome measures called for by our Strategic Plan for revenue growth and increased value of the ESOP. Our books are in great shape and we continue to move forward. The investments we have made in ourselves over the years - technically, functionally, and competitively - continue to pay off. We pursue productive business relationships with a variety of other firms in areas complementary to our core capabilities. Our staff is professional, dedicated, and relentless in its pursuit of excellence and the satisfaction of our customers.

Our challenge is to maintain and improve the quality and creativity of what we do, accentuate our competitive differences, incorporate new and better ways of taking care of ourselves, and perpetuate an intense customer focus.

We want to be solution providers of choice in the wide-open competition for sharp, perceptive analysis and context-sensitive systems development and technology integration. This can only be accomplished by remembering the "first" principles to which we adhere: operate ethically, achieve superior quality for our customers, and renew ourselves. It is these principles that have attracted and retained a talented and capable staff who enjoy a reputation for product and service excellence as well as enthusiastic, loyal customers who value the work we do.