STORY:
Key U.S. Agencies Miss Y2K Deadline

A Reuters report says a U.S. Senate panel has warned that the Federal Aviation Administration, the Defense Department, and Health and Human Services will miss the government's March 31 deadline to prepare computers for the year 2000 millennium bug.

The Senate's special committee on the computer problem said it expected 90 percent of the federal government to meet Wednesday's government-wide readiness deadline.

But it appears the remaining 10 percent are a concern because they include critical systems and services which play an important part in maintaining the health and well-being of our nation's citizens.

The Senate's Y2K committee singled out the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services for falling behind in readiness efforts.

With more than 250 different computers making up the air traffic control system, the FAA has been struggling to check and fix 23 million lines of computer code, according to congressional auditors.

The report says the Defense Department was only 72 percent complaint. Nearly 160 mission-critical systems at the Pentagon will not meet the March 31 deadline.

The committee also warned that problems at Health and Human Services could cause problems for the nation's 34 million Medicare beneficiaries.

According to Reuters, the FAA and other federal departments cited for problems say there is no cause for concern because they expected their computers to be ready by Jan. 1.

Source: Reuters

DATE: 3/31/99

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