The planning, organizing and directing of financial activities and associated budget and accounting functions of the Center are implemented and monitored. In response to customer requirements and the demand for streamlined functionality, applications are developed with an infrastructure considerate of costs, platform independence, and functional comprehensiveness. The ADB places a strong focus on ensuring the integration of new and emerging application technologies to realize cost and performance benefits for business processes. The ADB acquires and maintains technical acuteness by regular participation in technical forums and seminars, frequent training, and consulting and partnering with industry to provide the customer with the best technical solution to their business problems. The organization strives to maintain technical currency while providing the highest quality services across all platforms supporting a wide array of software solutions.
Services provided in the organization encompass the full gamut of desktop support.
Customers benefit from services designed to administer and maintain database servers designed to administer to administer and maintain database servers, develop and maintain software applications, and troubleshoot application problems. The administrative support personnel in the building ensure operational effectiveness of the GSFC financial plan and develop financial and resource management systems including automated as well as non-automated processes. Other functions in Building 18 include funds control, accounting, fiscal data, cash management, reimbursables, and payroll. For many years, the Center's payroll was processed in this building, which housed a large mainframe computer.