What impact will the Y2K problem have on your operations?

Dr. John W. Lyons Director U.S. Army Research Laboratory Adelphi, MD

The millennium computer problem, or as it is frequently called, the Y2K bug, presents a variety of challenges for the Army Research Lab (ARL). Being a hightech research lab, ARL uses computers and computer software in a variety of ways. ARL and its predecessor organizations have a long history in computers-from building the first computer (ENIAC), to creating some of the earliest computer graphics programs, to hosting one of only 13 Internet root domain name servers in the world.

As we began looking at the Y2K implications at ARL, it became obvious that there were a broad range of problems, concerns, and …