The National Information Technology Center's (NITC) Agency Applications Services Division (AASD) and other locations provide comprehensive application life-cycle support services to USDA agencies and other federal clients. We have 15 major customer projects and several smaller projects we are developing. Projects implemented are on a variety of hardware and software platforms that support the diverse business requirements of our clients.

  Value-added Services:

• Flexibility - NITC services can be customized to meet valued customer requirements and goals.
• Commitment/Accountability - NITC is committed to excellence in providing world-class leadership through innovative, reliable Information Technology services and applications. NITC maintains the highest level of customer satisfaction with high availability of products, services, and resources.
• Integration - NITC computer specialists have in-depth expertise and the capability to provide integration of applications and do problem solving.
• Knowledge of Government Organizations - NITC supports USDA, its agencies, and other non-USDA government entities with in-depth knowledge of their missions and programs.
• Expertise - NITC personnel work in partnership with USDA agencies and other federal clients to provide high quality, cost-effective information technology solutions to meet their agency program IT and business requirements. NITC assures a comprehensive and integrated approach to applications and database development, maintenance, and support on a variety of NITC and customer-owned platforms. This is accomplished by incorporating all areas of systems, database, applications and documentation disciplines.

NITC's development strategies and project management provide the flexibility to respond to changing customer requirements and it provides access to other architectures and tools for delivering a variety of quality products and services to customers, including:

• Applications Design, Development and Support
• Enterprise Wide Applications
• Database Management and Support
• Technical Information Services
• Web Site Development and Management
• Web-enabling Legacy Applications
• Systems Re-engineering and Integration
• eGovernment Applications Support
• Integrated Testing on Multiple Hardware Platforms
• Internet Applications Development

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Last Modified: 10/01/2007