The Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) manages technologies supporting NIAID biomedical research programs. The office provides a spectrum of management, technologies development, applications/software engineering, bioinformatics support, and professional development.
OCICB works closely with NIAID intramural, extramural, and administrative staff to provide technical support, liaison, coordination, and consultation on a wide variety of ventures. These projects and initiatives are aimed at ensuring ever increasing interchange and dissemination of scientific information within the federal government and among the worldwide scientific network of biomedical researchers.
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Bioinformatics and Computational Bioscience Branch
Customer Services Branch
The Customer Services Branch (CSB) provides technical and tactical cyber technologies (CT) management and intramural support for biomedical research programs in NIAID. CSB delivers CT infrastructure to facilitate electronic communication within NIAID through global scientific and clinical data exchange. CSB provides a framework for automated information sharing and collaboration.
NIAID biodefense areas receive CSB technology support through the use of performance standards and strict adherence to security procedures.
CSB responsibilities include
- Promoting enhanced security, improved service and system availability, and timely deployment of new applications and services
- Ensuring compliance with the Capability Maturity Model Integration
- Throughout the Cyber Technologies Program
- Defining and establishing standards and processes
- Identifying and analyzing requisite attributes of work products and tasks
- Determining and projecting resources needed, negotiating commitments, and developing a schedule
- Developing and maintaining the project or program plan mechanism for managing work
- Monitoring and evaluating work products and services against established standards and reporting status to senior management
- Ensuring that noncompliance issues are addressed and corrective actions taken
- Controling changes to configuration items and providing accurate status and current configuration data
- Analyzing, designing, building, and testing rollout client, server, and Web-enabled applications and systems
Operations and Engineering Branch
The Operations and Engineering Branch (OEB) provides technical and tactical cyber technologies (CT) management and support for NIAID extramural biomedical research programs.
OEB delivers essential and assured services to facilitate communication using electronic systems and a collegial, authorized, and accessible framework for automated information sharing and collaboration, including shared network applications and Internet access.
OEB responsibilities include
- Providing technology support to NIAID biodefense areas through the use of performance standards and strict adherence to security assurance procedures
- Employing CT methodology comprising a consolidated integrated optimized systems approach, incorporating multidisciplinary teams of science program managers and technologists
- Providing support for special access to extranet knowledge-information-data systems hosted on NIAID Internet, intranet, and extranet Web servers
- Ensuring compliance with Capability Maturity Model Integration
- Throughout the Cyber Technologies Program
- Managing the life-cycle program for the extramural community
- Developing and implementing standards for extramural configuration and workstations
- Defining standards and managing and implementing Information Systems Security measures
- Identifying and estimating requisite attributes of the work products and tasks
- Determining resources needed, negotiating commitments, and developing a schedule
- Controlling changes to configuration items and providing accurate status and current configuration data
Program Management Branch
The Program Management Branch (PMB) leads and coordinates technology-related policy, strategic planning, program and project liaison, program and project collaboration, and resource administration for NIAID biomedical technologies programs. PMB is the intra- and interagency liaison between the NIAID Cyber Technologies (CT) Program and the Chief Information Officer.
PMB responsibilities include
- Developing and reviewing NIAID technology planning, programs, and acquisitions to ensure that they conform with technology-related federal laws, regulations, and policies
- Coordinating the CT program through strategic planning, knowledge management, cyber systems and software engineering, and bioinformatics
- Planning, monitoring, and evaluating requirements and resources management, commitments, negotiation, and resolution of process-related issues in OCICB
- Conducting technology resource planning to ensure compliance with governmental policy and best practices
- Administering technology resources for OCICB missions
- Governing and providing oversight for OCICB technology maintenance and licensing agreements
- Coordinating NIAID officials' planning regarding the design and implementation of CT solutions to meet NIAID needs
- Performing strategic planning and analyzing resources for future needs by identifying major NIAID bioinformatics issues
- Enhancing professional development of staff through in-service training, professional development activities in the laboratories, and collaboration with interdisciplinary professionals
- Sponsoring collaboration between biomedical researchers and information technologists to meet requirements of NIAID programs
- Monitoring conformance with technologies, investment review, acquisitions, and evaluation policies
- Providing
- Quality assurance for programs, performance assessment, and guidance and oversight of reporting
- Guidance and coordination of capital planning for technology
- Systems Security Administration and Management
Software Engineering Branch
The Software Engineering Branch (SEB) provides technical and tactical cyber technology management and support for NIAID biomedical research programs.
SEB designs, develops, maintains, implements, and manages software, systems, and applications that provide enhanced support to NIAID. These systems are designed to support specific areas, such as the Scientific Coding and Referral System (SCORS) and the Acquisition Management Budget Information System (AMBIS) 2000. SEB also ensures compliance with Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).
Throughout the Cyber Technologies Program (CTP), SEB is responsible for
- Defining and establishing standards and processes
- Identifying and analyzing requisite tasks and attributes of work products and processes
- Determining and forecasting resources needed, negotiating commitments, and developing a schedule
- Developing and maintaining the project and program plan mechanism for work management
- Intensively monitoring and evaluating performed processes, work products, and services against established standards, and reporting status to senior management
- Ensuring that noncompliance issues are addressed and corrective actions taken
- Controlling changes to configuration items and providing accurate status and current configuration data
- Analyzing, designing, building, and testing rollout client, server, and Web-enabled applications and systems