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To: Rainforest who wrote (7204)	12/12/1997 9:48:00 AM
From: Judy Helkowski	Respond to of 31646

An interesting article on Dept. of Defense spending on cost of remediation. I did not post the URL as it was too long, but the article can be accessed at www.gcn.com in the March, 1997 issue. Other articles of interest can also be found there including one in the latest issue entitled "SSA Posts Date Code Help". Apparently the gov't is setting up a database on companies whose software that different agencies use that is or will be Y2K compliant. Another section will list the results of federal agencies test results on software that is supposedly Y2K ready. Back to DOD article: Gregory Slabodkin The sky's the limit at Defense Gregory Slabodkin Government News Defense's 2000 fix estimate keeps inching up The Defense Department's estimate on what it will spend to rework its code to handle dates come Jan. 1, 2000, keeps creeping upward. DOD's current estimate is $1.2 billion, roughly half of what the Office of Management and Budget figures the entire government will spend on year 2000 fixes. But Emmett Paige Jr., assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, has made it abundantly clear to both the military services and Congress that no new money will be requested for this work. Any additional funds the services or DOD central organizations need must come from existing operation and support accounts, Paige said. Up $50 million Last month in a year 2000 action plan it submitted to Congress, DOD estimated it would spend about $970 million on code conversions. One week later, in response to a congressional query, DOD increased that estimate to the $1.2 billion figure. "I submit that as we continue the assessment, that figure will continue to rise," Paige testified before a House subcommittee on Feb. 24. "However, again, we are not going to come and ask for an additional bank of money to solve this problem." DOD estimates that it will cost $1.10 per line to revise code for its administrative systems and $8 per line to convert code for embedded weapon systems. Head start Agencies in the renovation and validation phases primarily started on the problem early-as early as 1991 in some cases, Paige said. In May, DOD will publish a year 2000 management plan that will outline the department's strategy and provide guidance on topics such as prioritizing systems, retiring systems, scheduling code updates and monitoring interfaces with systems outside DOD. "The [$970 million] figure that we presented to OMB we furnished them reluctantly because we figured first that someone would try to hold us to the figures," Paige said. "As far as we are concerned, the figures are not very important in terms of getting on with the job because we've tried to emphasize to everyone, 'Don't use the year 2000 expecting that it will provide funds to bank other things.' " DOD has a five-phase approach on the date code work: awareness, assessment, renovation, validation and implementation. So far, Defense has taken inventory of approximately 9,300 systems that need code work. About half of those systems are in the assessment phase, and another third are in the renovation phase. There's a little more but I somehow deleted it. However, the amount given for lines of code embedded weapons systems is $8 per line! Judy H.