news.com -- United States stockpiles overseas Y2K crisis supplies
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"Strategically located stockpiles of food, blankets, and emergency supplies are at capacity level," Richard Nygard
of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told the House International Relations Committee.
USAID, which responds to humanitarian crises, has been nudging U.N. agencies and U.S. private groups to prepare
for worst-case scenarios, though they are already stretched thin worldwide, he said.
"The uncertain impact of Y2K could place major additional demands on our agency and on other donors
of humanitarian aid," said Nygard, USAID's chief information officer.
In separate testimony the national intelligence officer for science and technology reiterated the
U.S. assessment that Russia, Ukraine, China, and Indonesia were among the "major countries most
likely to experience significant Y2K-related failures." [...] |
