Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the SBA, the VBOC, Region III, is located in the heart of Pittsburgh at Robert Morris University's downtown campus in the Adult and Continuing Education Building at 600 Fifth Avenue. One of only five VBOCs in the nation, Region III serves clients in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.

The VBOC offers one-to-one business counseling, mentoring, workshops, discussion groups, networking opportunities, and entreprenurial courses to all veterans, current military personnel and spouses, and pre- and post-deployed members of the National Guard and Reserve Forces who are interested in entrepreneurship. All counseling is free.