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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (7003)	7/23/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: B.K.Myers	Respond to of 9818

Is the FAA really 100% Compliant? currents.net The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is completely Year 2000-compliant, and has tested and verified every one of its systems, the Department of Transportation announced today Why would the FAA would make this statement? biz.yahoo.com FAA and Raytheon Successfully Complete Year 2000 Validation Testing Of the STARS Early Display Configuration Software LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1999--Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTNA - news; NYSE:RTNB - news) announced today the successful completion of Raytheon's Year 2000 (Y2K) Joint Validation Testing of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) Early Display Configuration (EDC) at Raytheon's Marlborough, Mass., facility. Completion of this Y2K test milestone is another key step consistent with successful deployment of the STARS system. The initial operational sites are scheduled for El Paso, Texas and Syracuse, N.Y. later this year. A substantial part of the EDC Y2K Validation Test consisted of ensuring that all of the major functionality designed into the EDC system for STARS was tested before, during, and after the millennium and Y2K leap year rollover dates. This formal, FAA- witnessed testing consisted of more than 1,300 procedural test steps and 30 discrete rollovers of Y2K date testing. Raytheon and the FAA reported that the system passed 100 percent of all tested steps. ''The recent joint FAA/Raytheon Y2K validation testing of the EDC software clearly demonstrates Raytheon's STARS software is ready for use in the next millennium,'' said Bill Voss, FAA Director of Air Traffic Systems Development. STARS is the state-of-the-art air traffic control system for the next century and will replace the computer and display systems in 172 FAA Terminal radar approach control (TRACON) facilities and up to 199 Department of Defense facilities throughout the country. Raytheon Company, based in Lexington, Mass., is a global technology leader that provides products and services in the areas of commercial and defense electronics, engineering and construction, and business and special mission aircraft. Raytheon has operations throughout the United States and serves customers in more than 80 countries around the world. ------------------------------- Their system may be independently verified and validated, but it is NOT installed. Now they have to install it in 371 facilities and retest it... all before 12/31/1999. Sounds like another definition of what "is" is. B.K.