Some Critical DoD Systems Won't Make Y2K Deadlines

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 30, 1998 – Some mission-critical DoD systems will not be Year 2000 compliant by an internal department deadline of December 1998 or the Office of Management and Budget's March 1999 target.

Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre and William A. Curtis, director of DoD Y2K oversight and contingency planning in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence, recently released the following list of those tardy systems and their target compliance dates:

Army Sea-Lite Beam Detector -- June 30, 1999
Standard Army Maintenance System - 1 -- Sept. 30, 1999
Standard Army Maintenance System - 2 -- Sept. 30, 1999
Army HELSTF Executive Controller -- Oct. 30, 1999
Army AN/TYQ-33, Tactical Combat Service Support Computer System-
Enhanced -- Dec. 31, 1999
Army Standard Installation/Division Personnel System -- no date
Defense Communications and Army Switch Systems -- Nov. 1, 1999
Naval Space Command Mission Processing System -- April 30, 1999
Integrated Satellite Control System -- May 31, 1999
NESP EHF Low Data Rate Terminal -- August 1999
Integrated Verdin Transmit Terminal -- May 1999
Integrated Submarine Automated Broadcast Processing System -- May 1999
Non-tactical Command Support System/Shipboard Non-tactical Automated
Data Processing Program I and II -- August 1999
Joint Maritime Command Information System Ashore -- September 1999
Joint Maritime Command Information System Afloat -- September 1999
Joint Maritime Command Information System Tac/Mobile -- September 1999
Joint Maritime Command Information System OBU/OED -- September 1999
Joint Maritime Command Information System Radiant Mercury -- September 1999
Inactive Manpower and Personnel Management Information System -- October 1999
Tomahawk Mission Planning -- March 1999
Tomahawk Afloat Planning System -- May 1999
Joint Services Imagery Processing System -- Navy -- May 1999
Naval Communication Processing and Routing System -- September 1999
Common Source Routing File System -- September 1999
Very Long Baseline Interferometry Mark III Correlator -- July 1999
Execution and Prioritization of Repairs Support System -- May 5, 1999
AC-130U Gunship Avionics -- May 31, 1999
Defense Attache Worldwide Network -- December 1999
Defense Switched Network -- September 1999
Defense Fuels Automated Management System -- June 1999
NIMA Exploitation System -- August 1999
Automated Patient Evaluation System -- May 1, 1999
Defense Medical Regulating Information System -- May 1, 1999
Compliance Monitoring and Tracking System -- April 1999.