Help, can't find the report any place on the net. Thanks. Mike

-- Mike (mwomble@luminet.net), August 25, 1999

Answers

Here's an 'updated' version in excel format. I believe this site was an attempt to CYA. Or a version without any technobabble. Any way you look at it, this report was deemed 'edible for consumer consumption'.

http://www.nfesc.navy.mil/y2k/utilinfo/Master-Util-8_25.xls

Grrrrr. ])raco42

-- Draco42 (Not@all.hackz), August 25, 1999.

Try this: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37bbfce303bd.htm

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), August 25, 1999.

Here is the story, and the addy it is at still in CNN archives. The original at AP archives is gone.

http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/20/navyfail.y2k.ap/

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Navy report predicts widespread Y2K failures for many cities

August 20, 1999 Web posted at: 12:56 PM EDT (1656 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. military report predicts widespread "probable" or "likely" failures in important power and water systems for many of the nation's cities because of the Year 2000 technology problem, a far more dire assessment than anything the White House has made.

But President Clinton's top Y2K adviser, John Koskinen, called the conclusions overly pessimistic in the study by Navy and Marine Corps base commanders worldwide. He said the military was assuming that major utilities would fail unless proved otherwise.

The most recent version of the study, updated less than two weeks ago, predicted "probable" or "likely" partial failures in electric utilities that serve nearly 60 of roughly 400 Navy and Marine Corps facilities.

The study predicted "likely" partial electrical failures, for example, at the new year at bases and offices in Orlando, Fla.; Gulfport, Miss.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and nine other small- to mid-size cities.

It also predicted "probable" partial water system failures in Dallas; Nashville, Tennessee; Houston; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Montgomery, Alabama; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and 59 other cities.

The study forecast likely partial natural gas failures -- in the middle of winter -- in Nashville; Albany, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; Fort Worth, Texas; Pensacola, Florida; and Charleston, South Carolina.

The military report contrasts sharply with predictions from the White House, which said in its own report just weeks ago that national electrical failures are "highly unlikely." The White House report also said disruptions in water service from the date rollover were "increasingly unlikely."

Koskinen, who vouched for the authenticity of the Navy report, noted nevertheless that all its worst-case predictions for failures were marked as "interim" or "partial" assessments.

"It's not nearly as interesting as the world coming to an end," said Koskinen. "The way they worked was, until you have information for contingency planning purposes, you ought to assume there was a problem."

The Navy report was first summarized this week on an Internet site run by Jim Lord, a Y2K author, who said he obtained it "from a confidential source of the highest reliability and integrity."

"The military has to work from the worst case, but so do we," Lord told The Associated Press on Thursday. "It's reprehensible for them to know this and keep it from us."

Koskinen said the Navy wasn't withholding information from anyone, noting that the continually updated report was available until recently on a Web site maintained by the Defense Department.

"The last people in the world the department is going to keep information from is their own people," Koskinen said. "In fact, the whole purpose of the exercise is to make sure they can provide appropriate information to servicemen on their bases and their families."

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-- David A Jones (jonesey@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999.