With an extensive background in the Intelligence Community (IC), McCarthy will bring Noblis NSP and its clients even greater depth of industry knowledge.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.—November 22, 2015—Noblis, Inc., a leading provider of science, technology, and strategy services, announced that Ellen McCarthy, former Director, Plans and Programs, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), has joined the Noblis NSP team as President of the organization.
“Ellen comes to us with an incredibly distinguished career in the intelligence community and the private sector,” said L. Roger Mason, Jr., Ph.D., Senior VP, National Security and Intelligence, Noblis. “Ellen is a trusted colleague and has a reputation of leading highly effective organizations with a focus on workforce, technology, and mission. We are very pleased to have her join the Noblis team and we look forward to expanding and enhancing the capabilities and solutions we bring to clients in this space.”
Before joining Noblis NSP, McCarthy served as a member of the NGA’s command leadership team, providing oversight for the execution and development of strategic direction, plans, programs, technology and research and development. Before this assignment she served as the NGA Chief Operating Officer where she oversaw the Agency’s daily business activities and advised the Director on a wide variety of issues related to strategic planning, programming and budgeting, corporate governance, and partner engagement.
Prior to the NGA, McCarthy served as the President of INSA where she led a number of initiatives that supported government policy and program development relating to cyber security, counterintelligence, acquisition, and homeland security intelligence. McCarthy has also held leadership positions with the Human Capital Management Office, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the United States Coast Guard, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and Atlantic Fleet.
“I’m eager to leverage my Intelligence and law enforcement experience to further position and solidify Noblis NSP’s stance as an authoritative force in the IC and security fields. I am really looking forward to working with this incredible team of industry experts to break ground and pave new ways,” said McCarthy.
About Noblis NSP
From policy and planning to engineering and execution, Noblis NSP is an essential and unwavering partner in strengthening our nation’s defense and security posture. Noblis NSP provides full-mission support to federal agencies tasked with protecting American lives and interests at home and abroad. To execute this mission, we employ the industry’s most talented strategic consultants and technical experts, who enable our clients to solve our nation’s most complex security challenges. Our services include full spectrum cyber operations, big data and scalable solutions, geospatial technology, and web development.
About Noblis
Noblis, Inc. is a nonprofit science, technology, and strategy organization that brings the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise in an environment of independence and objectivity. We work with a wide range of government and industry clients in the areas of national security, intelligence, transportation, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and enterprise engineering. Together with our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis NSP, we tackle the nation’s toughest problems and support our clients’ most critical missions.
