RESTON, Va., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Virginia-based Enterra Solutions LLC announced plans to expand its operations in Iraq by opening a regional office in Erbil.

Enterra Solutions plans to deploy its trademarked assistance offering, Development-in-a-Box solutions, to a new office in the Kurdish region of Iraq. Company officials say the new office, located in the Erbil Convention Center, is an effort to better serve the Iraqi Central Government, the Kurdistan Regional Government and U.S. Departments of Defense and State activities in the region.

"We see great opportunities in Iraq," Stephen F. DeAngelis, Enterra Solutions president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "We believe our Development-in-a-Box solution will help build critical infrastructure industries such as telecommunications and financial services and will be an asset in attracting foreign direct investment and international joint ventures by helping businesses and government agencies to develop the necessary infrastructure and trading services to stimulate critical components of the economy and move goods and services from an emerging region to developed markets."

Company officials say the new office will be responsible for programs including its business-to-business and business-to-consumer trading exchanges among others with an eventual staff of more than 50 local Iraqis.

"Our office in Erbil gives us an operational hub for Iraq and will further our relations with the Iraqi and Kurdish people. This presence in the region will give us a unique opportunity to implement our Development-in-a-Box solution as well as help in the economic revitalization of Iraq and the rapid expansion of the Kurdish region," DeAngelis said. "We want the government, the business community and the people in the region to know that we believe in their potential and have cast our lot with theirs and we will work hard to make them successful."