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http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=67033(UPI Spotlight) FAA on track for Y2K deadline WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) - The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a progress report (Thursday) that says almost 90 percent of its mission critical air traffic control systems are ready for the year 2000. The FAA has until the end of March to complete testing to make sure its computers will be able to function properly in the new millennium. Here is a snippet from the Congressional Report from the 22nd:
as recently as August 6, 1998 that the FAA will not be fully ready by January 1, 2000. Significant risks in the FAA remediation program sited by the GAO included:
Ineffective management of external data exchange analysis and remediation efforts.
As of August 6, 1998 half the exchanges were still not examined for date sensitive data; of the 25% found to have date sensitive data, over 90% of those needed repairs.
Poor coordination to date on international air transportation issues. Reliance on a telecommunications infrastructure that is not totally within its control and may not be renovated on time.
Missteps in business continuity and contingency planning. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has criticized the current version of FAAs plans for being ambiguous in responding to outages of critical facilities. The FAA testified at the August 6, 1998 hearing that finalized contingency plans would be available by August 31, 1998, but that date slipped at first until September 30 and then slipped again. At the time of this report, only a draft version of the FAAs Y2K contingency plan is believed to exist and it has not been widely distributed in the aviation community or seen by the Senate Committee.
-- Deborah (info@wars.com), March 04, 1999
Ooops another mistake, I seem to be making MANY these days.The UPI piece ends on the word Millennium.
I cut and pasted the rest from the Senate y2k Report.
-- Deborah (info@wars.com), March 04, 1999.
Deborah,A representative from the FAA was on the CBS morning show a few days ago. He said that they "hoped to finish installing their systems by June 1999 and HOPED to finish testing by years end." Direct quote to the best of my recollection. So I say, HUH?
-- confused (confused@huh.com), March 05, 1999.
That's okay - I'm sure only 90% of their planes need to land safely. After all, 90% performance is pretty good in most classes.How do book yourself on one of those "90% " safe airplanes? I'd rather avoid the 10% that can only take-off safely.
-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), March 05, 1999.
Confused,I would say you had the appropriate respose!!!!!!!
Robert,
ROTFL ! Considering, I live 10-15 miles from the worlds busiest international airport, & I frequently drive on the heavily traveled interstates that literally border the runways, and the antiquated air traffic control screens in the towers are known to go blank under ordinary circumstances, one does wonder.....
-- Deborah (info@wars.com), March 05, 1999.
Deborah, here's CNN's story:FAA says all critical components of U.S. air traffic control ready for Y2K
Ready
-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), March 05, 1999.
Lisa-I wish that you saw the report on CBS morning show. Right from "the horses mouth" they said that they had not finished INSTALLING the new compliant systems yet, as of this week. How can you test something that's not yes installed? I may not be a computer genius, can someone explain THATone to me??? Maybe they have some secret new technology that allows time travel........? LOL
-- confused (confused@huh.com), March 05, 1999.
Lets not forget that they have to replace all of the mainframe hardware in the regional air traffic control centers. Has anyone heard any more about that issue?. They are replacing all the IBM 3083's with G3 models. Since this is mostly real-time processing, there are complex issues of timing and peripheral compatibility issues. There are bound to be conversion problems separate from Y2K.
-- RD. ->H (drherr@erols.com), March 05, 1999.
F.Y.I. -- DianeFederal Computer Week
MARCH 4, 1999 . . . 12:10 EST
FAA aims for June 30 Y2K fix
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0301/web-faa-3-4-99.htmlBY ORLANDO De BRUCE (orlando_debruce@fcw.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration expects to have all of its mission-critical systems Year 2000-compliant by June 30 and is now monitoring Year 2000 activity of its international partners and of U.S. airlines and airports, an agency official said today.
Raymond Long, the FAA's Year 2000 coordinator, said that 64 percent of the agency's 151 mission-critical systems will be compliant by the governmentwide March 31 deadline set by the Office of Management and Budget. "We recognize the OMB deadline [and] worked very hard to meet it," Long said. "But it would be very hard to meet that deadline when the FAA was seven months behind."
Additionally, after July 1, the FAA will issue an advisory detailing the Year 2000 efforts of the top six locations that handle air traffic for international flights to and from the United States. Those six sites -- the Bahamas, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom -- account for 60 percent of U.S.-based international flights.
Long said all the major U.S. airlines are in very good shape. But he does expect minor disruptions at some of the nation's 500 major airports, such as lost baggage and ticket problems, because of Year 2000 problems with related systems. FAA is expecting a report by June 30 from the major airports about their Year 2000 efforts.
The FAA said it now plans to hold briefings on the Year 2000 once a month.
-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), March 05, 1999.
Thanks Diane - The FAA has hired Willhee, Cheatum And Steal to as the PR firm to handle Y2K releases.
-- RD. ->H (drherr@erols.com), March 06, 1999.