Managing Organization-Wide Conversion and Compliance

January 1998 The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) maintains 40 million lines of code within 125 automated information systems. Over 80 percent of our major systems make use of date data in some way; half of those date references are high impact; that is, likely to adversely affect comparisons, calculations, or sort processes. DLA’s System Design Center (DSDC) is a feefor-service activity, and funded as we are by disparate functional proponents, we have had rare occasion to conduct a maintenance effort of this magnitude across multiple system structures. The degree of planning and coordination called for to accomplish Y2K-compliant systems has been for us, unprecedented. We began our formal Y2K project in November 1995.