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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion
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To: John Hunt who wrote (528)9/7/1999 7:28:00 AM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Cold War bunker made Y2K post (USAF)

<< Montgomery, Ala. -- In a facility once used to track Soviet bombers and missiles at the height of the Cold War, the Air Force last week opened a command post to monitor and engage the last threat of the millennium: Year 2000 date-code bugs that could infect the service's worldwide computer systems and networks.

The Air Force has set up its so-called Fusion Center in a refurbished space on the top floor of a windowless, hardened bunker annex at Maxwell Air Force Base here. The building once housed room-size computers that powered the Air Force's early warning system -- called the Semi-Automated Ground Environment -- that could warn the United States of incoming Soviet nuclear missiles. Now filled with state-of-the-art computer terminals and monitors, the Fusion Center "will be building the big picture of Y2K" for top commanders on New Year's Eve, providing them with a near-real-time status of Air Force computer systems worldwide, said Brig. Gen. Gary Ambrose, director of the Air Force Year 2000 Program.

Ambrose said the center is "truly pivotal to the Air Force Y2K effort...connected to every Air Force command post and [computer and network] help desk worldwide.'

The Fusion Center is operated by the Air Force's Standard Systems Group, which developed and maintains code for a wide range of Air Force software systems. Experts from each of those systems staff help desks at the Fusion Center. >>

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