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NIH Webcasting

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NCC is proud to announce a strong start to 2012 with the award of a new contract to provide webcasting and on-site support services for the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Division of Medical Arts (DMA).   Specifically, NCC will provide ongoing on-site webcasting support, as well as closed captioning, transcription, and annotation services for NIH events taking place off the main campus.  Among other responsibilities, NCC personnel will set up equipment, test connections, continuously monitor live webcast streams, ... read more »

Lorene Eberhardt, Vice President of Operations

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It is with great pleasure that NCC announces the promotion of Lorene Eberhardt to Vice President of Operations.  Lorene was hired in 2006 as an Administrative Assistant/Scheduler.  Because of her hard work ethic, natural business acumen, commitment to stewardship, and impeccable ethics, she was quickly promoted to Caption Manager, Operations Manager, and, most recently, Director of Operations.  Over the past six years, Lorene has been instrumental in the continued strength and growth of our company.   During her time here, NCC has ... read more »

NCC Awarded DoE Contract

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NCC is pleased to announce the award of a new support contract by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.  Under this contract, we will provide an 8-person team to manage and operate the Small Business Innovative Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Grants Applications Processing and Support Center.  The contract is for a base year and 4 option years. NCC’s new employees started working on December 15th at DOE’s Germantown, MD facility.  Our team, led by Project ... read more »

NCC Supports 9/11 Observance Ceremonies at the Pentagon

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In early September, NCC was privileged to have the opportunity to assist Department of Defense staff by providing project management and vendor coordination in support of the special events held at the Pentagon to mark 10 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Conference and Peer Review Manager Kim Preiss and Audiovisual (AV) Project Manager Kellan Hetrick exemplified the responsiveness and flexibility our clients have come to expect as they were instrumental in putting together the proposal with the ... read more »

NCC Attends Annual GWSRA Conference

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On the weekend of October 22, two NCC associates attended the 2011 Greater Washington Shorthand Reporters Association (GWSRA) Annual Conference held at the Alexandria-Old Town Area Hampton Inn and Suites.  This two-day event is held each year for the benefit of GWSRA members and their affiliates, providing an opportunity for licensed reporters to earn CEU credits and for stenography students to gain invaluable insights. All participants heard presentations from a diverse speaker lineup, networked with one another ... read more »

New IT Help Desk Contract

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NCC is excited to be part of the SRA International team that was awarded a contract to support the National Institutes of Health Center for Information Technology Division of Customer Support.    Specifically, NCC will be providing multiple client-site Tier 1 service desk support personnel to provide direct technical assistance to the NIH user community by telephone and web.  The NIH IT Service Desk provides customer service support via the telephone and website to the community 7 days a week, 365 ... read more »

Event Support for 1st Library of Congress NDIIPP/NDSA Meeting

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As part of a five year contract with the Library of Congress (the Library), NCC provides event planning and travel support services to several of the Library‘s departments, including the congressionally-directed National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP).  June 2011 marked the one-year anniversary of the creation of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), an NDIIPP branch that establishes partnerships between institutions and organizations interested in long-term preservation and accessibility.  With over 147 million items and counting in the ... read more »

NCC Awarded New AHRQ Contract

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NCC is pleased to announce the award of our first contract with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).  Together with our subcontractor Rose Li and Associates, a professional services company specializing in scientific review management and science writing, we look forward to providing AHRQ’s Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations (OEREP) with technical, analytical, and logistical support.  The total award ceiling for this Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract, should all four option periods be exercised, is ... read more »

NCC Shines in FEMA Realtime Exercise

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Since inception, NCC has consistently delivered accurate and timely service to our clients, and the week of May 16th was no different.  During this week, NCC was pleased to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by providing transcripts and captions for its webcasts related to the agency’s National Level Exercise (NLE) 2011, its annual functional operations-based federal disaster drill. From May 16 – 19, FEMA employees and other emergency response professionals engaged in a series of training exercises designed to ... read more »

NCC Supports Georgetown University Interfaith Deaf Conference

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On Thursday, April 28, 2011, NCC was contacted by Optimum Audio to provide CART services for Georgetown University’s Interfaith Deaf Conference, held annually to discuss current topics in the deaf Muslim community. The conference was scheduled for 9:30 am Saturday. The following afternoon, an NCC AV associate arrived on site at the McCarthy Hall to test equipment and verify telephone and data network connectivity for a remote CART event. By 8:30 am Saturday morning, an NCC stenographer was connected ... read more »