"Inasmuch as foreign language skills are crucial for maintaining U.S. security and leadership globally, it is our nation's core capability to translate data economically, promptly and without misinterpretation that is key. Many with multilingual skills can produce translations, but few are skillful translators. A quality translation is an art form, a tapestry etched from the fabric of a translator's learned skills, life experiences and intricate knowledge of human interaction. "

Jeff Robinson
Director National Virtual Translation Center

• We develop policies, procedures, and systems for managing NVTC translation requirements and services;
• create a virtual information sharing architecture that connects the translation tasks, language resources, and linguists anywhere in the United States of America;
• identify and utilize translation resources from the U.S. Government, academia, and private industry;
• support continued development and fielding of proven Human Language Technologies (HLT), designed to help process and exploit foreign language data.