ECMPS Support

This week some members of the team who have helped design, develop, test, maintain, and support several CAMD applications, including ECMPS, went on a business trip to the National Computer Center (NCC). Early Tuesday morning found six of us in a rented minivan headed to Research Triangle Park, North Carolina where NCC is located. In support of CAMD, we spent the day in meetings with CAMD and NCC personnel.

NCC hosts the EPA data center for many of the applications with which ECMPS users are familar: CAMD Business System (CBS), Data & Maps, and, of course, ECMPS.

During the meetings, we had the opportunity to meet a number of the people who help maintain the actual servers which are part of CAMD's technical architecture. Unfortunately, because one of the presentations ran long, we were not able to get a data center tour. Of course, it was good to be able to put faces to names, and we appreciated the opportunity to discuss ways to continue to improve our collaboration in supporting CAMD's applications.

Here is a picture of five of us outside the main building.


Jennifer Johnson, David Ward, Mark Hayward, Peter Robie, Bill Myers, Ingrid Thomson (photographer)

(By the way, if you ever wonder where your data go after you submit it to EPA. The data end up in the building behind us.)