Year 2000 Reporting for Defense Finance and Accounting Service Cleveland Center Systems

The overall audit objective was to determine the effectiveness of the DFAS initiatives for addressing the Y2K computer problem. For this report, we evaluated whether DFAS: entered all required data elements into the Defense Integration Support Tools for each system, and verified that information in the Defense Integration Support Tools database was consistent with information in the DFAS quarterly reports. Introduction. This is one of a series of reports being issued by the Inspector General, DoD, in an informal partnership with the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to monitor DoD efforts to address the Year 2000 computing challenge. Information technology systems have typically used two digits to represent the year, such as 97', to represent 1997, to conserve electronic data storage and reduce operating costs. With the two digit format, the Year 2000 would be represented as "00," making it indistinguishable from 1900. As a result of this ambiguity, computers and associated systems and application programs that use dates to calculate, compare, and sort information could generate incorrect results when working with years after 1999. To track and assess the progress in addressing Year 2000 (Y2K) problems, DoD issued the Y2K Management Plan. The Y2K Management Plan, which provides the overall strategy for resolving issues, had five phases: awareness, assessment, renovation, validation, and implementation.