How We Deliver: AI/ML and Advanced Decision Analytics

Noblis develops AI-forward solutions to accelerate and optimize critical government missions.

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AI Training and Workforce Enablement

Through immersive labs and mentorship, personnel master real ML pipelines, ethics and federal compliance standards. Participants work with sandbox data, publish reproducible notebooks and earn certifications. Our programs develop internal champions who promote best practices, automate governance and maintain secure workflows, strengthening organizational readiness across leadership and staff.

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AI System Monitoring, Test and Evaluation

The AI monitoring, testing and evaluation landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by AI’s growing complexity and importance. Our research ensures AI remains reliable, fair and ethical throughout its lifecycle, with real-time tracking of performance, stability, bias and transparency using continuous data collection, anomaly detection and automated alerts.

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Assurance, Safety and Governance Solutions

Our approach incorporates comprehensive governance, red teaming and safety cases from concept to decommissioning. Our Responsible AI Framework aligns risks with National Institute Standards Technology (NIST), Department of Defense (DoD) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) controls, defines measurable guardrails and automates evidence collection to ensure regulatory compliance, oversight and leadership confidence in lawful, ethical and resilient autonomous analytics.

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Autonomous and Agentic AI Solutions

Utilizing advanced reinforcement learning, sensor fusion and constraint-based planning, our agents perceive, decide and act independently. They reroute around failures, negotiate resources and adapt to mission changes without supervision. Deployed in logistics, robotics and unmanned systems, these solutions enhance agility, allowing humans to focus on collaboration and governance.

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Computer Vision and Multimodal Sensing AI

Our research integrates imagery, sensors, audio and text for comprehensive environmental understanding. Using self-supervised learning, efficient transformers and domain adaptation, they overcome occlusion, low-light and limited labels. Operators gain real-time analytics for inspection, security, disaster response and asset tracking to enhance situational awareness during connectivity or resource challenges.

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Explainable AI and Model Interpretability

Our interactive explainability suite combines prediction scores, counterfactuals and causal graphs to reveal why models behave as they do. Stakeholders can trace predictions to source features, evaluate metrics and simulate policy impacts in real time. These insights identify bias, support accreditation and enable program managers and auditors to govern AI confidently.

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Machine Learning

Our applied research customizes transformers, quantization and edge inference to transform raw mission data into rapid, actionable insights, even on resource-limited devices. We combine automated feature engineering, continual learning, reduced training compute and security to accelerate deployment across enterprise and tactical networks.

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Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative and Retrieval Augmented AI

AI models are aligned with secure knowledge bases through vector retrieval, prompt optimization and policy filters. Retrieval-augmented generation provides current facts, while guardrails prevent hallucinations and leakage. They support multilingual chat, summarization, entity extraction, reasoning and faster research, reporting and decision-making without compromising confidentiality, integrity or compliance.

Why Noblis?

As an AI-forward nonprofit organization, Noblis builds solutions founded on ethics and objectivity and driven by technical expertise and robust platforms. We create trustworthy, transformative solutions that have lasting impacts on the most critical missions, for the best of reasons.

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AI Field Guide for Public Sector Enterprises

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The Noblis AI Field Guide provides a wide-ranging overview of AI technologies, adoption considerations and responsible AI practices. It comprises four chapters: 1. A primer on AI-related capabilities; 2. AI Playbook, best practice guidelines for implementing AI programs; 3. Responsible AI, guidelines for developing and adopting AI technologies and services in a secure, unbiased and ethical manner; 4. Special Topics in Emerging AI Technologies. The Guide informs on the rapidly evolving AI technology landscape, provides a roadmap for organizations and promotes AI adoption across the public sector.

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Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Extract and Analyze Complex Data

For CMS, Noblis designed an AI-driven analytics knowledge mesh platform (KMP) to easily ingest disparate data and dynamically visualize information. The solution enabled a novel way to pinpoint agency challenge areas and drive enterprise improvement activities.

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AI Success Starts Long Before an Agency Applies Data to an Algorithm

Federal agencies are rightfully excited by the prospect of how artificial intelligence can help modernize and transform their mission delivery. In fact, AI is “perhaps one of the most fundamentally interesting technologies of the 21st century,” said the chief data scientist and director of the Innovation Lab at the Government Accountability Office. But successfully using AI requires not only careful planning and a sound strategy but also preparing your organization for its adoption.

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The Importance of Risk Management and Ethics in Planning and Implementing AI Projects

Listen to Noblis senior ML engineer and principal investigator Abby Emrey discuss the importance of risk management and ethics in planning and implementing AI projects on Federal News Network’s Tackling Government Challenges Through Science and Technology podcast.

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Implementing AI Projects in Government

In this AI implementation panel convened by Federal News Network and Noblis we explore four questions: “Do we have the data in place? Do we have the infrastructure and tools? Do we have the experts in the data scientists to facilitate these projects? And do we have that governance structure?” Read more in this article, “AI success starts long before you apply data to an algorithm.”

Doing Business for the Best of Reasons

Hand in hand with innovation, we are committed to objectivity and the highest ethical standards in all our business interactions. Learn more about our commitment and Code of Conduct.