Year 2000 Compliance of the Worldwide Port System

摘要

This is one in a series of reports being issued by the Inspector General, DoD, in accordance with an informal partnership with the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to monitor efforts to address the year 2000 (Y2K) computing challenge. For a list of audit projects addressing the issue, see the Y2K webpage on the IGnet at http://www.ignet.gov. The Worldwide Port System (WPS) is a mission-critical automated information system designed to support the operational requirements of DoD for tracking and documenting the movement of DoD ocean cargo through water ports It is fielded at 72 Army and Navy organizations worldwide The overall audit objective was to evaluate whether DoD was adequately planning for and managing Y2K risks for selected logistics systems to avoid disruption of the DoD mission. Specifically, we reviewed the Y2K risk assessments, testing, and contingency planning for selected logistics systems that support the DoD mission For this report, we reviewed the WPS.