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Coordinates: 38°51′34.5″N 77°12′59.6″W / 38.859583°N 77.216556°W
Noblis Type Not-for-profit corporation Founded 1996 Headquarters Falls Church, VA, USA Key people Amr ElSawy
(President) & (CEO)Employees 750 Website www.noblis.org Noblis is a nonprofit research corporation headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. The firm performs scientific research and engineering with clients in the federal, state, and private sectors. The company's scientists, engineers, and researchers in business areas of health care, national security, transportation, sustainability, energy, environment, and climate, and enterprise transformation.[1] The company, formerly known as Mitretek Systems, was a spin-off from the MITRE Corporation.
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History
In 1996, Mitretek Systems was formed as a nonprofit corporation with a charter to perform research and engineering science and technology as a spin-off from the MITRE Corporation.[1]
Between 1996 and 2006, Mitretek Systems focused on national security threats, chemical and biological warfare, biometrics, electronic transactions, traffic congestion, patient safety, environmental sustainability, and renewed energy resources. Mitretek sponsored research projects included: analyzing and implementing technologies to keep information secure on the Internet, communicating voice and data by using Internet Protocol in the event of a national emergency, developing gaming technologies for first responders, and creating sick city scenarios to understand what happens during a naturally occurring, or terrorist-instigated biological event. The organization changed its name to Noblis in 2007.[2]
Organization
Headquartered in Falls Church, VA, Noblis has offices in San Antonio, TX, Washington, DC, Belcamp, MD, and Lexington, MA.[3]
Some 800 employees work in science, engineering, research, and technology.[4]
The firm's CEOs have been Lydia Thomas (1996-2007) and Amr ElSawy (2007–Present)[5]
References
- ^ a b Day, Kathleen (1996-02-23). "The Think Tank That Went Out for a Spin; Mitre Splits in Two to Answer Concerns That It Has an Unfair Edge in Government Work". The Washington Post.
- ^ "History". Noblis. http://www.noblis.org/AboutNoblis/Pages/CompanyHistory.aspx. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ "Locations". Noblis. http://www.noblis.org/AboutNoblis/Locations/Pages/default.aspx. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ "Our People". Noblis. http://www.noblis.org/AboutNoblis/OurPeople/Pages/default.aspx. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- ^ "Leadership Team: Amr ElSawy". Noblis. http://www.noblis.org/ABOUTNOBLIS/LEADERSHIPTEAM/Pages/AmrElSawy.aspx. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
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