Test and Evaluation Year-2000 Team Report
Abstract
The Test and Evaluation (T&E) Board of Operating Directors (BoOD) commissioned a T&E Year 2000 Team in March 1996 to assess the vulnerability of the T&E community to Year 2000 problems and their impact within the Department of Defense (DoD) T&E community. These problems are those which will affect computer based systems at or near the transition to the year 2000. These problems can lead to possible year misrepresentation internal to computers, their associated programs and their related data stores. The T&E Year 2000 Team focused on case studies within the Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) to extrapolate an assessment of the overall Year 2000 issue as it pertains to T&E. The team also surveyed parallel DoD efforts and commercial support available to resolve Year 2000 issues. The team discovered that the T&E community was vulnerable in subtle ways to the Year 2000 issue. We learned that many major scientific and engineering computer applications were exempt by merit of the state of the art environment in which they run or the nature of the applications themselves. While many of these primary applications may well be Year 2000 compliant, the related subsystems, utilities, feeders and management systems upon which they depend are not. Thus, where they exist, Year 2000 problems in the T&E community are deep seated, rooted in subtle interfaces and not patently evident.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA353012
Entities
People
- George Hurlburt
Organizations
- Naval Air Warfare Center