Agency collaboration founded in personal relationships  Thursday
- 12/13/2012, 6:01am EST  Jason Miller discusses his article on
The Federal Drive  Download mp3  The interagency National
Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center had a major
problem on its hands back in October. It had evidence that
counterfeit air bags not only didn't work properly, but they
could engulf the driver in flames.   Lev Kubiak, the director of
the interagency National Intellectual Property Rights
Coordination Center, said that's when he saw the real benefits
of cross agency collaboration.   Lev Kubiak, director, National
Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center  "It was that
physical proximity that developed the professional intimacy that
allowed us to handle in a very short amount of time a problem
we'd never seen before, and to get some solution out so we could
at least notify the public," Kubiak said Wednesday at the Multi
Sector Leadership in a Digital World conference sponsored by the
George Washington Universi