Awards, Certifications and Patents

Noblis has received numerous workplace awards. We have been recognized numerous times as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® honorees by the Ethisphere Institute and as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post. We have also been ranked among the top 50 U.S. companies with the “happiest employees”, “best work-life balance” and with the “best CEO for diversity” by Comparably. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Corporate Awards

• Named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® twelve times by the Ethisphere Institute (most recently in 2024)

Workplace Awards

• U.S. Veterans Magazine list of “Top Veteran-Friendly Companies” (2024)
• Business Insider Top Workplaces in Hampton Roads / Virginia Beach, VA (2024)
• The Washington Post Top Workplaces in Washington D.C. (eleven times in a row, most recently in 2024)
• Energage Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards winner for Professional Development, DE&I Practices, Employee Appreciation, Woman-led Organization, Compensation & Benefits, Work-Life Flexibility, Leadership, Innovation and Purpose & Values (2024)
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, Top Workplaces in Philadelphia (2024)
• Energage Top Workplaces, Nonprofit (2024)
• Energage Top Workplaces USA award (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)
• Military Times Best for Vets employers list (2023)
• Energage Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Award National Winner for Employee Appreciation, Employee Well-Being, Professional Development and Women-Led Organization (2023)
• Built In winning workplace list of Best Places to Work in Washington D.C. (2023)
• Energage Top Workplaces Culture Awards for Excellence in Innovation, Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits, Leadership and Purpose & Values (2023)
• Comparably Culture Award for Best Work-Life Balance (2022, 2021)
• Comparably Culture Awards, Best CEO for Diversity (2022)
• Comparably Best Places to Work in Washington, D.C. (2022, 2021)
• Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards, Gold Award Winner, Category: Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy for the Noblis Experience initiative (2022)
• WayUp Top 100 Internship Program (2021, 2020)
• Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Official V3 Certified Company

Technology Awards

• 2024 Washington Technology Top 100 list
• 2024 OrangeSlices AI Elev8 GovCon Honoree
• 2023 Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Tech100 Honoree
• 2023 SAMmy Award, World Systems Architecting Modeling Team of the Year (team of three Noblis employees as part of the systems architecture modeling competition and world championship at the Integrate 2023 Digital Engineering Symposium)
• 2022 NVTC Capital Cyber Award winner (category: government contractor making over $50M revenue)

Quality, Compliance and Certifications

• RunCyberAssurance® software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution and its supporting platform-as-a-service have achieved the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s (FedRAMP^®) Moderate Authority to Operate designation. Read our press release.
• Noblis’ Quality Management Program met the requirements and was transitioned to the ISO 9001:2015 standard – see our compliance page for details.
• Noblis’ Information Security Management Program met the requirements and received the ISO/IEC 27001 standard – see our compliance page for details.
• Noblis’ Information Technology (IT) Service Management System met the requirements and received the ISO/IEC 20000-1 standard – see our compliance page for details.
• Noblis is appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration.

Scott James: Patent 12,051,335 for a Novel Flight Path Optimization System

Erica Maciejewski and Eric McCabe: Patent 11,522,783 for a System to Develop Data-Rich Network Topology

Stephen Melsom: Patent 11,423,157 for a Machine Learning System that Simulates Security Checkpoints

Charles Otto: Patent 11,275,973 for a Method to Improve AI Recognition of Low-quality Images

Dr. Karl Wunderlich: Patent 11,283,874 for a System for Collectively Optimizing Cooperative Actions Among Autonomous Connected Machines

Mychal Ivancich: Patent 11,222,712 for Primer Design Using Indexed Genomic Information

Ilya Basin: Patent 11,036,903 for Data Structures and Processing Methods for Highly Scalable Simulation Platforms

Christopher Dabo: Patent 10,856,150 for Distributed Ledger Systems for Authenticating LTE Communications

Samuel Gross, Ph.D.: Patent 10,855,467 for Detecting Vulnerable Encryption Keys in Network Communication Systems

Sterling Thomas et. al.: Patent 10,191,929 for Systems and Methods for SNP Analysis and Genome Sequencing

Matthew K. Monaco and Daniel Negrón, Ph.D.: Patent 10,915,654 for Data Loss Prevention

Matthew K. Monaco and Daniel Negrón, Ph.D.: Patent 10,924,502 for Network Security Using Inflated Files for Anomaly Detection​

Noblis: Patent 11,003,933 for Multispectral Anomaly Detection​

Mark Sanders and Tyler Barrus: Patent 11,055,399 for Data Recovery Through Reversal of Hash Values Using Probabilistic Data Structures​

Daniel Negrón, Ph.D., Mark Sanders and Tyler Barrus: Patent 11,037,654 for Rapid Genomic Sequence Classification Using Probabilistic Data Structures

Sterling Thomas, Mychal Ivancich, Nathan Dellinger: Patent 10,560,552 for Compression and Transmission of Genomic Information

Tyler W. Barrus: Patent 10,482,007 for Memory Allocation on Non-Volatile Storage

Noblis: Patent 10,482,336 for Face Recognition and Image Search System Using Sparse Feature Vectors, Compact Binary Vectors and Sub-Linear Search

Matt Monaco et al.: Patent 9,595,143 for Systems, Apparatus, and Methods for Continuous Authentication

Nicholas D. Bartlow, Ph.D. and Zachary L. Hutzell: Patent 10,061,688 for Method and System to Automatically Enforce a Hybrid Branching Strategy

Noblis: Patent 9,405,965 for Vector-based Face Recognition Algorithm and Image Search System

Victor Pollara: Patent 9,177,051 for Method and System for Personal Information Extraction and Modeling with Fully Generalized Extraction Contexts

John Maguire: Patent 8,806,621 for Computer Network Security Platform

Noblis: Patent 8,700,488 for Flexible Data Store for Implementing a Streamlined Acquisition Process