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Y2K and National Security |
DoD Year 2000 Oversight
and Contingency Planning Office
Management &
Action Plans:
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) The Year 2000 - Meeting the Challenge
National Communications System (NCS)
- Each NCS member organization is represented on the NCS Committee of Principals (COP) and its
subordinate Council of Representatives (COR). The COP provides advice and
recommendations to the NCS on NS/EP telecommunications, participates in joint
industry-government planning, and requests advice and information from the National Security Telecommunications
Advisory Committee (NSTAC) through the Office of the Manager, NCS (OMNCS).
- The NCS Y2K
Information Center - The National Communications System is working to assure NS/EP
telecommunications in the new millennium
- Programs Division (N2) - The current focus
is to assess the impact of the "year 2000 problem" on the public
telecommunications networks. FCC Year 2000 Homepage
- Technology and Standards Division (N6) -
International Y2K testing is being done under the purview of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). This
testing is scheduled to be conducted from March-April 1999.
- Operations Division (N3) - Even though N3
does not expect a major telecommunications service interruption resulting from year 2000,
they are putting a great deal of emphasis on proper planning for a contingency in this
area. The National Coordinating Center for
Telecommunications is reviewing current operational response procedures and the existing
National Telecommunications Coordinating Network, looking for additions to current process
or backup connectivity peculiar to year 2000 (for example, connections to software experts
from the telecommunications switch manufacturers.)
- The President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) Network
Group Report, September 1999. http://www.ncs.gov/nstac/nstacxxi/reports/0925ng.pdf
- "The millennium change is not a January 1, 2000,
problem; it is a long-term problem that will begin before, and extend well beyond, January
1, 2000."
- Global
Positioning System (GPS)
Civilian Agencies connected with DoD:
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