Environmental Sustainability

Noblis is a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization with a unique mission: to help our clients solve complex systems, process and infrastructure problems in ways that truly benefit the public. Whether we are finding safe and effective ways to dispose of obsolete chemical weapons, developing models that improve hurricane forecasts or working with a community to safely and quickly transition closed military installations for reuse, our impartial, conflict-free, independent counsel and approach to complex problems make us stand apart in the nonprofit world.

Noblis is unique because when we sit down to solve a problem, there are no strings attached to our thinking. We have no commercial interests to advance, no vendor alliances to protect, and no sponsors or members to represent. That means our impartial, inter-disciplinary teams of thought leaders and subject matter experts are free to concentrate exclusively on what matters most - working diligently with our clients to get at the real problems or issues they are facing; weighing the options and strategies for addressing them; and ensuring that program implementation is practical, sound, substantive and sustainable.

Environmental Client Base

We have worked with numerous federal and state organizations and institutions. Below is a list of clients we have supported and continue to support.

Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence
Air Force Institute for Operational Health
Air Force Real Property Agency
Army Base Realignment and Closure Program
Army Corps of Engineers
Defense Logistics Agency
Defense National Stockpile Center
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Department of Agriculture
Environmental Council of States
Environmental Protection Agency
Navy
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program/Environmental Security Technology Certification Program

Work Experience

Our program has provided direct support to scores of operating locations around the country and beyond. We have extensive experience assisting our clients – from environmental remediation and management at the strategic program level to evaluation of individual sites at the location level. The map below shows (by major client) a selection of installations and locations that we have provided with technical and regulatory support.


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Expert Staff

Our astute and mission-driven Environmental Sustainability team—including accomplished environmental engineers, biologists, chemists, policy and regulatory specialists, geoscientists and toxicologists—combine intellectual rigor, domain experience and multi-sector perspective to address our clients’ critical and challenging problems and deliver efficient, practical solutions. This team has been successful working with federal and state regulators to gain acceptance for innovative and cost-effective solutions to a variety of environmental problems. With staff located in site offices throughout the country, we are strategically located to serve the needs of our clients.

Locations

We have numerous program personnel at our company headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, as well as locations across the country. Our three largest sites outside of the main office are in San Antonio, Texas; McClellan Park in Sacramento, California; and Denver, Colorado. Site offices and satellite locations are listed here:

Corporate Headquarters
3150 Fairview Park Drive South
Falls Church, VA  22042-4519

Environmental Sustainability Program
Site Offices
Denver, Colorado
Sacramento, California
San Antonio, Texas

Satellite Locations
Atlanta, Georgia
Savage, Minnesota
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Sequim, Washington

Areas of Expertise

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE
Environmental, Biological, and Chemical Sciences
Chemical and biological defense/counter-terrorism
Energy systems/chemical process technologies
Environmental impact analysis
Environmental management strategies
Health and environmental risk assessments
Weather and ocean systems

Enterprise Planning and Analysis
Business engineering and operational analysis in multiple domains
Business transformation
Cost analysis
Strategic program and technology planning

Systems and Technology
E-commerce technology/applications
Health systems technology/application
Information resource management
Information security
IT architecture planning/system modernization
Quality assurance
Telecommunications planning/network evaluation

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE
Acquisition and Contract Management
Acquisition support
Contractor oversight
Cost-to-complete
Enterprise architecture
Innovative technology evaluations
Performance-based contracting
Performance-based management
Strategic evaluation of programs and systems
Technical and cost evaluation of proposals

Site Characterization, Remediation and Closure
Conceptual site models development and validation
Environmental analysis and remediation
Groundwater modeling
Laboratory and field quality assurance/quality control
Policy and regulatory analysis
Privatization analysis
Quality review and oversight
Record of Decision development/evaluation
Remedial process/program optimization
Remediation technologies
Site characterization and investigation
Stakeholder facilitation
Training range assessment

Risk Assessment
Ecological risk assessment
Human health risk assessment
Toxicological analyses

Specialized Technologies
Bioremediation
Chemical demilitarization
Military munitions site characterization