Dr. H. Gilbert Miller, Noblis Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer received a 2011 Northern Virginia Technology Council/Washington Technology Government Contractor CTO Innovator Award.

NVTC, the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia, is the largest technology council in the nation. The NVTC/Washington Technology Government Contractor CTO Innovator Awards recognize chief technology officers within the region’s government contracting community for their contributions to achieving results for their customers and their leadership. Winners in the small, midsize, and large business categories are selected by an independent panel of leaders from the government contracting. Dr. Miller was named a top CTO innovator in the midsized company category. He received his award at the NVTC’s 2nd Annual TechCelebration Banquet in McLean, Va. on November 14, 2011. Over 750 technology leaders were in attendance.

The CTO Innovator Award recognizes Dr. Miller for his leadership role in advancing Noblis’ science and technology capabilities to better support Noblis’ clients in national security, transportation, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and enterprise services. It also recognizes his role in creating a public-private partnership to establish the Center for Applied High Performance Computing in Danville, Va. The CAHPC will be a world-class center for high-performance computing (HPC) that accelerates the development and commercialization of applications requiring graph analytics for the benefit of the U.S. The Center will host the first Cray XMT2 Supercomputer in the U.S. outside of a federal laboratory or academic facility. The CAHPC will use this high-performance computer to solve complex problems requiring access to large amounts of data.