United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1998-08-28 monographic deposited born digital 32 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-98-162 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162 P0b002ee1803932bc f:ai98162 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162 AIMD-98-162 Systems conversions Strategic information systems planning Information resources management Computer software Data integrity Systems compatibility Computer software verification and validation Electronic data interchange Interagency relations Dept. of State Year 2000 Program Y2K Letter Report AIMD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of State's progress in solving its year 2000 computer systems problem, focusing on the: (1) overall status of State's efforts to identify and correct its date-sensitive systems; and (2) appropriateness of State's strategy and actions to correct its year 2000 problems.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) State has taken many positive actions to increase awareness, promote sharing of information, and encourage its bureaus to make year 2000 remediation efforts a high priority; (2) however, State's progress in responding to the problem has been slow; (3) for example, of the 40 systems that State identified as mission critical and needing either converting or replacing, only 17 (42.5 percent) have completed renovation; (4) more importantly, until recently, State's year 2000 effort lacked a mission-based perspective, that is, it had not determined its core business functions or linked these functions to its mission or to the support systems necessary to conduct these operations; (5) because the year 2000 problem is primarily a business problem, agencies need to take a business perspective in all aspects of it; that is, they should identify their core business areas and processes and assess the impact of system failures; (6) until it takes these steps, State will not have a good basis for prioritizing its systems for the purposes of correction or developing contingency plans that focus on the continuity of operations; (7) in responding to GAO's draft report, State noted that it has recently determined its core business functions and linked these functions to its mission; (8) it has not yet linked its core business functions to support systems necessary to conduct these operations; (9) finally, State has not been managing the identification and correction of its interfaces effectively; (10) specifically, it is still identifying its interfaces, even though this task should have been completed in the assessment phase, and it has developed written agreements with data exchange partners for only a small portion of its systems; and (11) as a result, State has increased the risk that year 2000 errors will be propagated from one organization's systems to another's. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162.pdf GAO/AIMD-98-162 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-162 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-98-162; Year 2000 Computing Crisis: State Department Needs To Make Fundamental Improvements To Its Year 2000 Program; Systems conversions Strategic information systems planning Information resources management Computer software Data integrity Systems compatibility Computer software verification and validation Electronic data interchange Interagency relations Dept. of State Year 2000 Program Y2K