ML20210Q627
| ML20210Q627 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 08/18/1997 |
| From: | Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Maloney C HOUSE OF REP., GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9709020074 | |
| Download: ML20210Q627 (4) | |
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August 18, 1997 caAuAN The Honorable Carolyn Maloney Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology Committee on Government Reform and Oversight United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515-6143 Oear Congresswoman Maloney:
In response to your request of May 20,1997, enclosed please find NRC's August 1997 quarterly report on the Year 2000 as submitted to the Office of Management and Budget.
If you have any questions, please contact Amold (Moe) E. Levin at 301415 7458 or via electronic mail at AELi@NRC. gov.
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Enclosure:
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Status of the Nucbr Renglataty Commission's Year 2000 Efforts Guarterly Report for Aunust 1997 1.
01sonirattario111eancatihljitlig. Describe how your Department /Agencyls organized to track progress in addressing the Year 2000 problem, a.
Describe rssponsible organizations for addressing the Year 2000 problem und provide an organization chart if organizations have changed from the previous repot t.
Arnold Levin, Acting Director of the Office of Information Resources Management (IRM),is the agency's Year 2000 Program Manager. The Year 2000 Program Manager has overall responsibility for NRC's Year 2000 Program and reports directly to the NRC Chist Information Officer (CIO). The ClO report 1 to the Chairman, b.
Describe piocesses for assuring internal accountability of responsible organization 3. Include quantitative measures used to track performance and other methods to determine whether the responsible organizations are performing according to plan.
Internal accountability for performance of Year 2000 activities will be assured through continuous monitoring of the progress of all Offices against established milestones. A Year 2000 point of contact (POC) has been established for every Office within the agency. POCs will provide progress reports to the Year 2000 Program Manager on a monthly basis. These reports will be used to update a central Year 2000 lnventory System database. Repolis will be generated monthly showing the status of Year 2000 efforts for each Office.
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Describe the management actions taken and by whom, when a responsible organization f alls behind schedule Progress reports are reviewed on an ongoing basis by the Year 2000 Program Manager and deviations from establisher 1 schedules are reoorted to the ClO. If any such deviations are reported, the CIO will discuss them with the managers who are responsible for the systems. As part of this discussion the CIO will desarmine the remedial actions to be taken. The ClO will periodically brief the Chairman, the Executive Director foi Operations, and the Chief Financial Officer of the NRC un any schedule deviations and the status of any remedial actions taken, d.
Describe how internal performance reports are verified.
We are implememing procedures requiring that the head of each responsible unit submit and certify performance reports on a regular basis.
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81algt. P. vide a report of the status of ag6ncy efforts to address the Year 2000 computer problems.
O An agency.wida status of the total number of mission-critical systems.
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The status of the mission critical systems being repaired.
Assecament Renovation Validation implementation Milestones Sep 1997 Mar 1999 Apr 1999 Nov 1999
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A brief narrative de e rlption of where significant progress has been made in addressing the problem in mission critical systems, systems other than mission critical systems, and problems beyond information technology systems. Also describe any significant problems affecting progress.
Significant promess made since last report:
e Assessment of mission critical systems was completed, e
Renovation of one mission critical system has begun.
e Assessment of other than mission critical systems is nearing completiori, e
Renovation has begun on other than mission-critical systems, e
Replacement of con.mercial off the shelf sof tware that is known to be Year 2000 non compliant has begun, Significant problerts affecting progress include:
e inability to precisely determine and document the status of systems that are cutside agency control. This category includes systems services provided by other Government agencies and systems acquired from commercial sources. Most of the services are provided by major vendors such as AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Microsoft, IBM, etc.
We are confident that these providers will correct an" Year 2000 problems in such a manner as to prevent interruption of the business functions of their customers.
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.qq113. If estimates of Year 2000 information technology costs have changed from the amounts most recently reported to OMB, report the new estimates.
NRC's cost estimates were previously provided to OMB and reported to Congress in OMB Report Getting Federal Computers Ready for 2000, dated February 6,1997. These figures will be refined, if necessary, as renovation is performed.
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Exceotica Report on Systems.
No exceptions to report, if you have any questions, please contact Arnold E. (Moe) Levin at 301415 7458or via electronic mail at AEL1@NRC. gov.
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