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This item sounds like it should be from last year. They are still talking inventory here. Is this correct?

GAO harbours concern over Navy's Y2K readiness

The US Navy faces major Y2K problems claims a report from the US General Accounting Office (GAO) as part of its continuing criticism of US government efforts to eliminate the millennium bug.

"Failure to address the year 2000 problem in time could severely degrade or disrupt the Navy's day-to-day and, more importantly, mission-critical operations," said the GAO report. The Navy was taken to task for being behind in its Y2K efforts and that Y2K software failures could potentially disrupt its operations worldwide.

The US Navy says it will follow some of the recommendations offered by the GAO and will develop an inventory of all of its IT systems and adopt a plan to make sure that all its mission-critical systems will be fixed by 2000.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), July 15, 1999

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Decker, is this more of your "good news?"

-- a (a@a.a), July 15, 1999.

How can you expect the U.S. military to have adequate I.T. support when the high-paying private sector is even struggling to keep up with readiness issues? Major Administrative intervention (in the form of hiring contractors) is the only thing that will bring it up to speed.

-- Klar (klarbrunn@lycos.com), July 16, 1999.

a,

Decker just thinks there will be a recession. Thoughtfull of him, isn't it?

b

-- b (b@b.b), July 16, 1999.

Actually a, sounds to me like the Navy has 'cracked their anvil'.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 16, 1999.