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4 lessons from SBA’s $30M Certify platform debacle

The Small Business Administration’s inspector general found the four-year effort to develop a single platform, Certify.SBA.gov, for small businesses…

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NASA, Energy, Commerce rearrange seats in CIO’s office

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Steve Cooper: Now is the time to assess agencies’ cyber performance

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FAA’s deputy CIO Cooper to leave government

Steve Cooper will head back to the private sector to his former management consulting business.

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Information sharing ‘instrumental’ in bin Laden killing

Information sharing has come a long way since Sept. 11, 2001. This interagency collaboration will be key to military successes, especially as the Defense…

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FAA concerned over bandwidth, not security with iPads

The Air Traffic Organization is in the middle of one of the largest pilots in government testing mobile computing devices. ATO CIO Steve Cooper said business organizations must have a valid need to use the devices. Cooper said ATO will test other mobile devices this spring.

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