Corporate Mission:
NVI, Inc. is a small business providing scientific and technical support services to government and commercial customers. Our motto is "Scientific and Technical Excellence", and we endeavor to provide high quality support in the physical sciences, mathematics and computer science.

Corporate Background:
NVI was founded in 1992 by Dr. Nancy Vandenberg, a scientist well known in the international geodesy community, to pursue a contract to provide support to the Goddard Spaceflight Center (GSFC) Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) group. NVI won this contract and all follow-on contracts. NVI has consistenly been awarded excellent ratings on these contracts.

In 2000 NVI won a contract to provide support services to the Naval Observatory VLBI Correlator in Washington, DC. The Navy awarded the follow-on contract to NVI in 2005 on a sole-source basis.

In 2005 NVI was awarded a contract to provide suport for the Astrometry group at the Naval Observatories in Washington, DC and Flagstaff, AZ.

In 2002, Dr. Vandenberg sold NVI to three long-term NVI employees: Dr. John Gipson, Mr. Ed Himwich, and Ms. Cynthia Thomas. Dr. Gipson is currently President and Chair of the Board of NVI,

Current Staff:
NVI, Inc.'s current staff includes several PhDs, MSs, BAs and BSs in physics, astronomy, mathematics, geodesy, geophysics, and computer sciences. NVI's senior personnel have significant experience in the management of many high level scientific and technical projects. Our personnel's wide range of capabilities includes the expertise to maintain VLBI field systems and perform data processing, analysis of GPS (Global Positioning System) data, laser altimetry and and ice-penetrating radar data analysis, and the development of software tools to facilitate the analysis and representation of various kinds scientific data, as well as software testing and integration.

A very generous benefits package and unique professional challenges have enabled NVI, Inc. to recruit extremely capable professionals in a very competitive market. Our average turnover is less than half that of other companies in our market sector.

Because of our small size and high-level of technical expertise we can provide a quick and flexible response to our customers. We offer an efficient management structure with low overhead, streamlined project management and quality control.

Current Contracts:
NVI currently has three major contracts:

NVI provides support services to the Goddard VLBI group. The GSFC VLBI group is a key component of the International VLBI Service for Astrometry and Geodesy (IVS). The Goddard group is the IVS Coordinating Center and an IVS Analysis Center. Two NVI staff are members of the IVS directing board, and several staff serve on various IVS working groups. The VLBI measurement technique provides extraordinarily precise measurements of Earth orientation parameters and distances between telescopes. Application of this technique has allowed the observation of important scientific phenomena, including the detection of El Niņo and La Niņa effects and measuring the displacements of tectonic plates. NVI's scientists were among the first group to detect contemporary tectonic plate motion in the 1980s using this technology.

Under a contract with the United States Naval Observatory, NVI provides support for the Washington Correlator. This is one of 3 major geodetic VLBI correlators, and is responsible for processing roughly half of all geodetic VLBI sessions. VLBI is the only technique that can measure changes in the Length of Day and nutation parameters, and plays an important role in measuring other components of Earth Orientation. These parameters are crucial to maintaining the orbit of satellites, including the GPS system, and in performing Deep Space Navigation.

Under a separate contract with USNO, NVI provides support services to Naval Observatory Astrometry group.

NVI has had shorter term contracts with a variety of customers including JPL, Honeywell, Raytheon, NICT (Japan).

Company Location:
NVI, Inc.'s headquarters are located in Greenbelt, MD, in the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area.