Former DHS CIO Cooper to FAA?
The federal information technology industry is talking about the rumored appointment of Steve Cooper as the chief information officer at the <a href="http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/">Air Traffic Organization</a> <strike>Federal Aviation Administration</strike>.
Updated July 31, 2009, at 1:31 pm.
The federal information technology industry is talking about the rumored appointment of Steve Cooper as the chief information officer at the Air Traffic Organization Federal Aviation Administration. The ATO is part of the Federal Aviation Administration and Cooper will work with FAA CIO Dave Bowen.
Cooper was named the Homeland Security Department's first chief information officer and served from 2003 to 2005. He left DHS to take a post as CIO at the Red Cross and then later started his own consulting business. Cooper grew frustrated with top managers at DHS in the Bush administration who treated IT not as a strategic tool to build the department, which relies on information sharing to meet its mission to protect the nation from terrorism and respond to disasters, but as a tactical process to support basic operations.
More on this story as it develops.
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