Configuration Changes to Year 2000 Compliant Mission- Critical and Date- Dependent Systems

摘要

In Audit Report No. 99-145 'Year 2000 Issues Within the European Command and Its Service Components', April 30, 1999, we noted a concern that DoD had not defined roles and responsibilities in addressing configuration changes to year 2000 compliant systems. We recommended assessing the advisability of a moratorium on system changes in order to maintain the integrity of the systems tested as year 2000 compliant. The Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a memorandum August 20, 1999, that established a policy to ensure that configuration changes to systems that are mission-critical and date-dependent did not add undue year 2000 risk to, or undermine confidence in, system architectures that were determined to be year 2000 compliant. The policy gave the Commanders in Chief and Office of the Secretary of Defense Principal Staff Assistants veto authority over configuration change proposals approved by the configuration control board for mission-critical and date-dependent systems identified on the Commanders in Chief thin-lines and Principal Staff Assistants functional end-to-end architectures. These provisions were in effect through March 15, 2000. The policy also stated that the Inspector General, DoD, would monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the configuration change proposal process. This report provides the results of the audit conducted in response to that tasking.