"disapearing" critical systems from Y2K preparedness lists
lasvegassun.com
[...]
n August 1997, the government listed 9,100 mission-critical systems, and
its overall rating stood at 19.3 percent compliant, according to the General
Accounting Office.
Since then, the government says, 3,298 systems have been fixed, and
about 79 percent of its mission-critical systems are compliant.
But that figure would have been only 55.6 percent had 3,323 systems not
been dropped or redefined, the GAO figures show.
John Koskinen, the chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000
Conversion, set a March 31 deadline for the federal government to have its
mission-critical systems 100 percent compliant.
[...]
similar tale at Housing and Urban Development: The agency started
with 231 systems and ended with 62. Compliance jumped from 22 percent
to 73 percent.
The Department of Defense's numbers went from 3,695 systems to 2,581,
and compliance from 18 percent to 52 percent. It has classified the details,
but the little information it did release shows that some formerly critical
systems of control, early warning and communications were folded into
others or split into smaller components.
Among systems reclassified by Housing and Urban Development are the
Multifamily Data Warehouse, phased out in November without
replacement, and the Funding and Contracting Tracking System, replaced
last month by the Grants Evaluation Management System.
Requests to HUD seeking explanations of the system's functions were not
answered.
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