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 1999-02-19 monographic deposited born digital 11 p. GA 1.13:T-AIMD-99-84 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84 P0b002ee180376b74 f:ai99084t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84 T-AIMD-99-84 Y2K Computer software Systems conversions Schedule slippages Municipal governments Information resources management Strategic information systems planning Computer software verification and validation Data integrity Y2K Testimony AIMD Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the challenges facing the District of Columbia in addressing the year 2000 problem, focusing on: (1) the District of Columbia's progress in fixing its information systems; and (2) the risks it now faces.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) the District Year 2000 Program Office has established an orderly process for addressing the year 2000 problem and has been working hard to develop an understanding of its core business processes and supporting information systems; (2) the Year 2000 Program Manager holds weekly meetings to review deviations from schedule baselines and to monitor the overall program status; (3) additionally, the Program Office recently began preparing year 2000 report cards for all systems included in the District year 2000 effort; (4) these report cards, which are provided to each agency, summarize the progress being made on each system; (5) the District's recent actions reflect a commitment to protect its key business processes from year 2000 failure; (6) however, its schedule for fulfilling this commitment is highly compressed and moves through four phases of the year 2000 process in less than one year-assessment by the end of February, renovation and contingency planning by the end of September, and system validation by the end of October; (7) the District remains over one year behind GAO's recommended schedule and is just now transitioning from the assessment to the renovation phase of the year 2000 conversion model; (8) according to the District's Year 2000 Program Manager, at this time, the District has only renovated about 5 percent of its mission-critical systems, with less than 1 percent of its mission-critical systems completing validation; (9) further, only one of the District's over 200 mission-critical systems, which is responsible for paying District employees and pensioners, has been through the entire conversion process and is now implemented; (10) only six business continuity plans--such as the plan for documenting the manual registering of students for the University of the District of Columbia' student enrollment process--have been finalized; (11) it will be difficult for the District to adequately compensate for its late start in initiating effective action on the year 2000 challenge; and (12) given the District's compressed year 2000 schedule--which allows no margin for error--and to have a reasonable chance of avoiding serious disruption to public services, it must be well prepared for likely project delays and failures of mission-critical systems. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84/html/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84.pdf GAO/T-AIMD-99-84 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-99-84 Testimony GAO/T-AIMD-99-84; Year 2000 Computing Crisis: The District of Columbia Remains Behind Schedule; Y2K Computer software Systems conversions Schedule slippages Municipal governments Information resources management Strategic information systems planning Computer software verification and validation Data integrity Y2K Public Law 104-8