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'I"ve been predicting one of the Y2K markers will be when our Navy ships
start tying up and anchoring. If they are not fully Y2K compatible, it
would be both suicidal and irresponsible to risk using them. I believe
every ship will have to go through major repairs and then test in
extensive sea trials just as if it were brand new. The entire fleet will
have to be thoroughly shaken down and all systems will have to be fully
tested before it will be safe to put any vessel or any group of vessels in
sensitive circumstancesor even just to be at sea. And all of this work has
to be completed before Y2K can create unpredictabilities. Think about how
the Aegis system malfunctioned in electronically normal times and shot
down the Iranian airliner. What does Y2K do to those systems and how can
the electronically integrated task forces function reliably and
predictably? How does anyone know what is good data and if the system will
perform as designed? Even if it turns out system performance is not
degraded by Y2K, how can that be known and trusted without exhaustive
testing at individual system level, vessel level, task force, fleet, and
all the way to the Pentagon? All of the system integration testing has to
be accomplished in eighteen months, or is it less?
Allen Comstock
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Federal Computer Week
MAY 18, 1998
Intercepts
BY BOB BREWIN (antenna@fcw.com)
IT-21 sticker shock. The estimated cost of upgrading a Navy Carrier Battle
Group and Amphibious Ready Group has jumped from roughly $50 million to
between $80 million and $100 million - and that covers only the major
ships, according to Monica Shephard, Atlantic Fleet N6. Shepherd said the
Navy faces "tough" decisions on how to allocate its IT funding and
resources as "all the easy decisions are gone.''
My Pentagon antenna site also has picked up strong signals that Rear Adm.
John Gauss, commander of the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Command, may
not end up with all the Navy IT funding. There's a good chance that the
money will still be controlled by the bases and other systems commands.
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Y2K SWAT teams. The Marine Corps "has no reasonable expectations'' that it
will have fixed all Year 2000 date code problems in all its computer
systems by Jan. 1, 2000, according to Col. Kevin McHale, the Year 2000
honcho at Marine Corps headquarters. McHale said the Marines plan to have
Year 2000 SWAT teams standing by at major installations on Jan. 1, 2000.
The Marines plan to dispatch these teams rather than provide phone support
as the service also has concerns about the effect of Year 2000 problems on
the phone network.
Almost Y2K-ready. The Navy Year 2000 Project Office thought it had
discovered one Navy ship with no Year 2000 problems - the four-masted
sailing ship USS Constitution. But, according to Cmdr. Jim Gillcrist, the
Navy discovered that "Old Ironsides'' sports a Global Positioning System
receiver, "which has its own date problems."
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Subject:
The Navy is Toast
Date:
Sat, 23 May 1998 23:29:01 -0700
From:
comstock@wild-life.com (Allen Comstock)
Organization:
Comstock Graphics (Montana)
Newsgroups:
comp.software.year-2000 |
