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Thursday July 29 4:37 PM ET
U.S. Plans Y2K Center, Clinton Aide Says
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is setting up an
unprecedented command center to cope with any year 2000
emergencies, President Clinton's top trouble-shooter for the
issue told Congress Thursday.
John Koskinen, head of the President's Council on Year 2000
Conversion, said federal authorities were urging critical U.S.
industries to join in the effort by funneling updates on their
systems to the government.
``While monitoring and collecting information on system
operations across the globe ... has never been tried before, I am
confident that the structure we have put in place'' will work,
Koskinen said at a hearing of the Senate's Special Committee on
the Year 2000.
Koskinen said the focus of his work was shifting to ``event
management'' to deal with possible disruptions caused by confused
computers. ``It has become increasingly clear that there is a
growing desire and need for timely and accurate information about
system operations as the world moves into the new millennium,''
Koskinen said.
Until now, the U.S. drive to cope with the problem commonly known
as Y2K has focused on spurring software fixes and contingency
planning at home and abroad.
At the heart of the new phase is the Y2K Information Coordination
Center (ICC), the Washington-based hub of a multimillion-dollar
crisis management system to be operational by Oct. 31, and to
wind up its Y2K operations by June 2000.
Koskinen said the command center is intended to keep tabs on
critical private-sector activities as well as local, state and
federal computer systems; on overseas developments; and on any
''cyber incidents,'' including electronic attacks.
The center is being set up in a former Secret Service facility
not far from the White House. Among other tasks, it will review
information from the International Y2K Cooperation Center set up
by the United Nations and the World Bank.
The command center planning now under way is for the New Year
period only. But U.S. officials consider the Y2K Center a test of
a national ``cyber defense'' drive set in motion by Clinton in a
May 1998 directive.
The White House said Wednesday it was weighing a long-term plan
to tighten U.S. defenses against threats to government and
private computer networks. Disclosure of the draft plan, which
would give the FBI a lead role, triggered concern that it would
threaten privacy and civil liberties.
Clinton formally signed the Y2K Center into existence last month
to coordinate, among other things, U.S. agency assessments of
Y2K-related emergencies that could harm U.S. interests at home
and abroad.
Koskinen said the center should be a framework for future
cooperation between key infrastructure industries and the federal
government to protect communication networks.
Committee chairman Bob Bennett, a Utah Republican, agreed the
center could provide experience to guide future efforts to
protect the country from cyber-attacks.
``The ICC, if done correctly, could provide the first real world
experience in dealing with the technological challenges of the
information age,'' Bennett said.
At issue over the New Year are expected disruptions ranging from
botched credit card transactions to power outages caused by
computers initially programmed to recognize dates only through
1999.
Earlier Stories
U.S. Plans Y2K Bunker, Clinton Aide To Tell Senate (July 29)
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