The North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) in Charlottesville, Virginia, is responsible for supporting the science use of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) by the North American astronomical community (the USA via the NRAO, and Canada via the National Research Council Canada), and for research and development activities in support of future upgrades of ALMA. The current schedule anticipates the first Call for Proposals for ALMA Early Science in late 2010, with the start of Early science in mid 2011. The NAASC is an operational division of within NRAO Headquarters, located in Charlottesville, VA on the campus of the University of Virginia.