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

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (1170)	3/11/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

"TIER ONE" AGENCIES ... INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF ADEQUATE PROGRESS: - Education - Energy - Health and Human Services - Labor - Transportation - U.S. Agency for International Development. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to be at significant risk of system failure. Although FAA has completed its assessments, it identified 101 additional mission-critical systems since the last reporting period. Considering its slow progress, the FAA needs to give significantly greater attention to contingency planning. Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has also still not completed its assessment of external contractor systems, such as Medicare fiscal intermediaries and carriers that process MEDICARE claims. About 75 percent of these external contractors have completed their Y2K assessments and it is critical that HCFA complete these assessments. *However, HHS and HCFA have limited ability under current law to influence these contractors.* cio.fed.gov

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (1170)	3/12/1998 9:21:00 AM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Josef - [from the OMB report] Agencies have identified 7,850 mission-critical systems. Of those mission-critical systems: 2,716 (35 percent) are now year 2000 compliant; 3,539 (45 percent) are still being repaired; 1,147 (14.6 percent) are still being replaced; and 362 (4.6 percent) will be retired. Any one see the flaw in this form of reporting? System #1 could very well be a single spreadsheet & system #7850 could be 50,000,000 lines of Assembler. Presenting numbers like this is akin to arguing that a $5 trowel is "less expensive" than a $5,000,000 bulldozer. True on the surface (by the context free numbers), but what's the task...? Digging the Panama Canal with $5 trowels would have been a heck of a task. - David