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The National Business Center (NBC) Announces CLOUD Release 2.0 !

“The NBC has stayed true to its strategy of ‘Crawl, Walk, Run’ and is pleased to announce its latest iteration of CLOUD services. Taking a measured, thoughtful approach to offering these cutting edge services has allowed the NBC to embed sound security controls in its environments while significantly expanding upon its CLOUD offering to meet a broader set of customer requirements in multiple CLOUD environments.”.

Douglas J. Bourgeois
Director, National Business Center

The National Business Center (NBC) announces its second release of NBC CLOUD Computing for Federal entities, which occurred on Saturday, February 27th. The Information Technology Directorate (ITD) CLOUD Team has developed and deployed several new capabilities and services, currently available for Federal agencies. The new release expands on NBC’s initial offerings of NBC-GRID (Infrastructure as a Service) and NBC-STAGE (Platform as a Service) first released in November 2009. NBC is now pleased to offer a pre-packaged, integrated development environment including a software development tool, version-control application, and testing tools. Additional features of the newest release include NBC-APPS (Software as a Service) which include collaboration, issue and bug tracking, and blogging applications…To view the full news release visit our Press Room at http://www.nbc.gov/press/.
(March 2010)

The National Business Center Launches Website Improvement Suggestion Feedback Box

We want to hear from you! In effort to ensure that we meet your needs, we would like to hear your ideas on how to better organize and provide you information on the NBC Public Website.

The NBC website refresh team invites you to submit your ideas on NBC website by clicking on the “How Would You Improve This Website” icon at the top left of the NBC website homepage and sending us your ideas/ suggestions for improvement.

Our goal is to make this site more user friendly from the perspective of the people who are visiting it the most. We are aiming to produce an end product that will improve navigation and facilitate your finding the information that you seek. In the weeks ahead we hope you take part in the collaborative effort and we look forward to hearing from you!
(February 2010)

National Business Center’s Acquisition Services Directorate Launches New Electronic Servicing Environment (ESE)

HERNDON, VA – The Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD), a line of business within the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Business Center (NBC), announces that it has launched a new online application, the Electronic Servicing Environment (ESE). ESE offers a collaborative, secure, and transparent solution for the NBC/AQD’s clients and was designed to be fully compliant with and ease the implementation of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy’s interagency agreement guidance. With ESE, Federal agencies have the ability to request support from NBC/AQD and to monitor the status of procurement projects in real-time using this web-based, management tool that offers 24/7 secure access…To view the full news release visit our Press Room at http://www.nbc.gov/press/.
(January 2010)