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  ...than your average building at NBP.

  ...building at NBP.

  ...NBP.

Name Binding Protocol

National Biosolids Partnership

National Braille Press

National Broadband Plan

Neighborhood Broadcast Problem

Neutral Body Posture

NetBIOS Protocol

Network Binding Protocol

Network Bootstrap Program

Network Bridge Processor

New Black Panthers

Non-invasive Blood Pressure

Normal Blood Pressure

Normal Boiling Point

Northern Business Products

Namco Bandai Partners

Hmmm...

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Here is a tip when you're faced with an acronym that someone that works the IC throws at you. Just Google it with "CIA" attached. Even though NBP is associated with the NSA there is enough link juice connecting the CIA to basically everything you could possibly associate in intelligence. Another example, "BND CIA" => first result is correct. "ISI CIA" => correct. etc.

And I guess IC stands for Intelligence Community?

Yes, the Federal government loves acronyms, and sometimes I forget these are not commonly known in most of the nation.

National Business Park

For a minute I thought that was some kind of general name, say for a business park of a certain size or standing within its state, but according to Google (first hit) it's this place:

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/nsa-nbp/nsa-nbp.htm

From my past life in DC, we always just called it "Up North."

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