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 1998-04-30 monographic deposited born digital 45 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-98-72 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72 P0b002ee1803a3174 f:ai98072 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72 AIMD-98-72 Systems conversions Information systems Cost analysis Computer software verification and validation Information resources management Data integrity Strategic information systems planning Systems compatibility Defense Integration Support Tools Data Base DLA Standard Automated Materiel Management System DOD Year 2000 Management Plan Letter Report AIMD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) program for solving the year 2000 computer systems problem, focusing on the: (1) overall status of DOD's effort to identify and correct its date-sensitive systems; and (2) appropriateness of DOD's strategy and actions to correct its year 2000 problems.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) DOD relies on computer systems for some aspect of all of its operations, including strategic and tactical operations, sophisticated weaponry, intelligence, surveillance and security efforts, and routine business functions, such as financial management, personnel, logistics, and contract management; (2) failure to successfully address the year 2000 problem in time could severely degrade or disrupt any of DOD's mission-critical operations; (3) DOD has taken many positive actions to increase awareness, promote sharing of information, and encourage components to make year 2000 remediation efforts a high priority; (4) however, its progress in fixing systems has been slow; (5) in addition, DOD lacks key management and oversight controls to enforce good management practices, direct resources, and establish a complete picture of its progress in fixing systems; (6) as a result, DOD lacks complete and reliable information on systems, interfaces, other equipment needing repair, and the cost of its correction efforts; (7) it is spending limited resources fixing nonmission-critical systems even though most mission-critical systems have not been corrected; (8) it has also increased the risk that: (a) year 2000 errors will be propagated from one organization's systems to another's; (b) all systems and interfaces will not be thoroughly and carefully tested; and (c) components will not be prepared should their systems miss the year 2000 deadline or fail unexpectedly in operation; (9) each one of these problems seriously endangers DOD chances of successfully meeting the year 2000 deadline for mission-critical systems; and (10) together, they make failure of at least some mission-critical systems and the operations they support almost certain unless corrective actions are taken. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72.pdf GAO/AIMD-98-72 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-98-72 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-98-72; Defense Computers: Year 2000 Computer Problems Threaten DOD Operations; Systems conversions Information systems Cost analysis Computer software verification and validation Information resources management Data integrity Strategic information systems planning Systems compatibility Defense Integration Support Tools Data Base DLA Standard Automated Materiel Management System DOD Year 2000 Management Plan