This from Federal Computer week:

http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/1221/web-y2k-12-23-98.html

Quotes:

• Just two months after the Defense Department Inspector General's office cleared the Air Force's main airborne surveillance and defense system of possible Year 2000 disruptions, it issued a new report lambasting Air Force Year 2000 program managers for lackluster oversight.

• The report's strongest indictment of the Air Force came when the IG discovered that a trained Year 2000 certifying official failed to review essential documentation on system certification during his evaluations. The IG said this official based his certification for eight maintenance systems "on test results and verbal assurances."

-- Arnie Rimmer (arnie_rimmer@usa.net), December 24, 1998

Answers

Talking about defense related Y2K updates, does anyone know how the DoD is doing? According to an earlier memo from William S. Cohen they were supposed to see how they were doing right about now. -- Diane

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) http://www.disa.mil/cio/y2k/cioosd.html

http://www.dtic.mil/c3i/y2k/secdefmemo.html Secretary Of Defense -- William S. Cohen, August 7, 1998

Subject: Year 2000 Compliance

The Department of Defense (DoD) is making insufficient progress in its efforts to solve its Y2K computer problem. ...

... We will take a hard look at progress in November and December. If we are still lagging behind, all further modification to software, except those needed for Y2K remediation, will be prohibited after January 1, 1999.

I ask for your personal, priority involvement as we address this critical national defense issue.

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 24, 1998.