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

To: flatsville who wrote (8689)	9/16/1999 8:34:00 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 9818

currents.net Fair Use/etc... Feds Making Progress On Y2K By David McGuire, Newsbytes. September 16, 1999 Outside of the Department of Defense, the "mission-critical" systems overseen by the 24 largest federal agencies are 99 percent Y2K- compliant, according to the most recent report of the administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB). But there remains substantial work to be done, the OMB report warns, particularly in the Defense Department, which has yet to complete fixes to 169 mission critical systems. Still, the overall tenor of the report is positive. Including Defense, the 24 largest federal agencies as defined by OMB have completed Y2K fixes to 97 percent of their mission critical systems. Fixes to those systems were only 93 percent complete at the time of OMB's June Y2K report. Of the 24 agencies, 15 have completed fixes to all of their mission critical systems. The Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Social Security Administration are among those reporting 100 percent completion of their mission-critical Y2K fixes. The report also indicates that, of 43 "high-impact" programs that are overseen by the 24 largest agencies, only a handful (fewer than 10) have completed their Y2K remediation efforts. Several of those programs, including Medicaid will not complete Y2K remediation until November or December. The OMB also reported that agencies tacked another $300 million onto their estimates of the total cost of completing all Y2K fixes. Agencies now estimate that when all Y2K costs have been tallied, they will have spent roughly $8.34 billion.