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Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership Today Needed To Prevent Future Disruption of Government Services

T-AIMD-97-51 Published: Feb 24, 1997. Publicly Released: Feb 24, 1997.
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GAO discussed the potential serious disruption to critical government functions and services that may result from the upcoming change of century, focusing on the steps agencies can take to reduce the risk of year 2000 computer system failures by making their systems year 2000-compliant.

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Application softwareComputer equipment managementSoftwareFederal agency accounting systemsFinancial management systemsInformation resources managementStrategic information systems planningSystems conversionsSystems evaluationY2KComputer resources management