As a company that offers premiere audiovisual and multimedia solutions to our clients, it’s our business to stay familiar with the newest gadgets and cutting-edge technology. We remain committed to implementing such solutions when the business needs make it necessary, but we also recognize that while a fancy piece of equipment or program with advanced features is quite impressive, it’s not always the right solution for ... read more »
In early 2009, NCC was asked to provide CART services for a student group at a local university that needed to maintain a high quality of service at the lowest cost possible, and on a compressed timeline. To meet this challenge, NCC proposed a remote CART solution as opposed to traditional CART, for which a stenographer is brought on site. While the project was executed successfully and resulted in dramatic savings for the client, the request served as a catalyst ... read more »
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - 2008-present - HUD’s Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (OHHLHC) is committed to providing information to the general public about qualified lead-based paint professionals and healthy homes practitioners as a part of its strategic goal to create healthy and affordable housing infrastructure. In response to this need, HUD OHHLHC retained the services of NCC to: Collect and update a listing of 11,000 trained and certified professionals across the ... read more »
National Institutes of Health, Division of Medical Arts - 2006-present - The NIH Division of Medical Arts (DMA) IT support services is an ongoing requirement supporting the DMA business management system called ScheduALL (SA). DMA required the services of IT resources to enhance the SA resource tracking and business management software system, revamp areas in need of improvement, and fulfill future requirements. NCC was awarded a 9-month initial contract to provide these services. Based upon superior performance, NCC was ... read more »
St. Louis Rams - 2009-present - The St. Louis Rams (National Football League professional team) required realtime captioning services for the team’s home games in the Edward Jones Dome. The organization needed live captions of the games’ coverage to stream on specialized Daktronics LED boards set up around the interior of the stadium. It is most cost-effective to provide the realtime text remotely, but all realtime captioning at other stadiums around the country had only been done with an on-site ... read more »
National Science Foundation, Division of Administrative Services - 2010-present - NSF’s Meeting and Events Management (MEM) team required assistance to coordinate and manage day-to-day conference room registrations, cancellations, changes and reconfirmations for its 27 conference rooms and the handling of an average of 75 requests daily. In addition, the team required help coordinating A/V technical support and conference room setup for up to 100 conferences and panel meetings daily. Each conference room needed to be monitored throughout the ... read more »
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - 2010 - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) contacted NCC two days prior to needing support for a 4-hour live webcast for a conference at a boys and girls club in Northwest Washington, D.C. NCC was able to provide webcasting services at a very reasonable price and was selected to work on the project. SAMHSA required that the webcast reach 300 individuals, that it be archived for ... read more »
Department of Energy - 2009 - The Department of Energy (DOE) had previously worked with NCC on other closed captioning events and contacted us for webcasting capabilities, which in turn led us to contact our long time partner, Accordent, who provided hardware for the webcast. DOE required a 4-hour live webstream to reach 500 individuals in many buildings across the U.S. During the presentation, slides needed to be delivered via webcast in addition to links to downloadable materials. DOE ... read more »
National Institutes of Health - 2002-present - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) required assistance providing media communications services for its agencies and councils. NIH media events contain specific scientific and technical language that requires a high level of specialized skill to reproduce. NIH needed a firm that could provide a high level of accuracy to meet its Section 508 requirements at a reasonable price. NIH also required administrative support for scheduling captioners who could cover up to 30 total ... read more »
U.S. Department of Defense Joint Forces Headquarters Command (JFHQ) - 2007 - The U.S. Department of Defense Joint Forces Headquarters Command (JFHQ) was interested in designing and building a multi-purpose conference room suite that could be operated from within the room or aided by an operator located in an adjacent control room. The audiovisual and integration project was defined by several design challenges, including a low ceiling height (8’3”) and a particularly deep conference room (approximately 60’). Customized front projection ... read more »