Interim Approval to Operate

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Temporary authorization granted by a DAA for an information system to process information based on preliminary results of a security evaluation of the system. (To be replaced by ATO and POA&M)

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Classifications

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Entity Type

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Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

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Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: IATO
plural: Interim Approval to Operates
possessive: Interim Approval to Operate's
pluralpossessive: Interim Approval to Operates'

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