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 1998-02-04 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:T-AIMD-98-63 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63 P0b002ee18037f017 f:ai98063t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63 T-AIMD-98-63 Systems conversions Computer software Strategic information systems planning Data integrity Computer software verification and validation Air traffic control systems Information resources management Systems compatibility FAA Year 2000 Program Testimony AIMD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) efforts to address the year 2000 problem, focusing on: (1) FAA's reliance on information processing; (2) where the agency stands today; (3) what remains at risk; and (4) what GAO recommends must be done to increase the likelihood that FAA systems will be year 2000 compliant by January 1 of that year.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) many of FAA's systems could fail to perform as needed when using dates after 1999, unless proper date-related calculations can be assured; (2) the implications of FAA's not meeting this immovable deadline are enormous and could effect hundreds of thousands of people through customer inconvenience, increased airline costs, grounded or delayed flights, or degraded levels of safety; (3) FAA's progress in making its systems ready for the year 2000 has been too slow; (4) at its current pace, it will not make it in time; (5) the agency has been severely behind schedule in completing basic awareness activities, including establishing a program manager with responsibility or its year 2000 program and issuing a final, overall year 2000 strategy; (6) further, FAA does not know the extent of its year 2000 problem because it has not completed key assessment activities; (7) specifically, it has yet to analyze the impact of its systems' not being year 2000 compliant, inventory and assess all of its systems for date dependencies, make final its plans for addressing any identified date dependencies, or develop plans for continued operations in case systems are not corrected in time; (8) until these activities are completed, FAA cannot know the extent to which it can trust its systems to operate safely using dates beyond 1999; (9) delays in completing awareness and assessment activities also leave FAA little time for critical renovation, validation, and implementation activities--the final three phases in an effective year 2000 program; and (10) with under 2 years left, FAA is quickly running out of time, making contingency planning even more critical. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63/html/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63.pdf GAO/T-AIMD-98-63 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-98-63 Testimony GAO/T-AIMD-98-63; Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Must Act Quickly to Prevent Systems Failures; Systems conversions Computer software Strategic information systems planning Data integrity Computer software verification and validation Air traffic control systems Information resources management Systems compatibility FAA Year 2000 Program