Air Force Research Laboratory Preparation for Year 2000.
Abstract
This report is one of a series being issued by the Inspector General, DoD, in accordance with an informal partnership with the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to monitor DoD efforts in addressing the year 2000 computing problem. Information technology systems have typically used two digits to represent the year, such as "98" representing 1998, to conserve electronic date storage and reduce operating costs. With the two-digit format, however, the year 2000 is indistinguishable from 1900. As a result of the ambiguity, computers, associated systems, and application programs that use dates to calculate, compare, and sort could generate incorrect results when working with years after 1999. The overall audit objective was to determine whether the Air Force Research laboratory is adequately preparing its information technology systems to resolve date-processing issues for the year 2000 computing problem. Specifically, the audit determined whether the Air Force Research laboratory has complied with the Air Force Materiel Command Year 2000 Program Management Plan. The Air Force Research laboratory had established a process for determining whether the, laboratory has a potential year 2000 impact and was actively determining its systems vulnerability to the date-processing problem. However, the Air Force Research laboratory had not met the required timeframes of the Air Force Materiel Command Year 2000 Program Management Plan for identifying and resolving any year 2000 impact for infrastructure items. The Air Force Research laboratory officials had emphasized the importance of identifying and resolving potential year 2000 problems, identified automated information systems that needed year 2000 corrections, begun conducting a comprehensive infrastructure inventory, begun reviewing ongoing research efforts for year 2000 concerns, and modified contracts for year 2000 compliance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 05, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA367840
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense