号称世界最强大的美国发射核武器的系统还在用floppy disk?!美国每年浪费几百亿美元在过时的电脑系统上

美国联邦政府比如Social security administration还在用1950 年代的软件和计算机语言，比如COBOL？美国联邦政府每年浪费几百亿美元维护可以进博物馆的上个世纪的电脑硬件和软件

美国政府真心不行啊，都怀疑下达命令，核武器能发射出去不？靠floppy disk

 

Among the vintage computing platforms highlighted in the report:

• The Defense Department’s Strategic Automated Command and Control System, which is used to send and receive emergency action messages to U.S. nuclear forces. The system is running on a 1970s IBM computing platform, and still uses 8-inch floppy disks to store data. “Replacement parts for the system are difficult to find because they are now obsolete,” GAO said. The Pentagon told GAO it is initiating a full replacement and the floppy disks should be gone by the end of next year. The entire upgrade will take longer.
• Treasury’s individual and business master files, the authoritative data sources for taxpayer information. The systems are about 56 years old and use an outdated computer language that is difficult to write and maintain. Treasury plans to replace the systems but has no firm dates.
• Social Security systems that are used to determine eligibility and estimate benefits, about 31 years old. Some use a programming language called COBOL, dating to the late 1950s and early 1960s. “Most of the employees who developed these systems are ready to retire and the agency will lose their collective knowledge,” the report said. “Training new employees to maintain the older systems takes a lot of time.” Social Security has no plans to replace the entire system but is eliminating and upgrading older and costlier components. It is also rehiring retirees who know the technology.
• Medicare’s Appeals System, which is only 11 years old, faces challenges keeping up with a growing number of appeals, as well as questions from congressional offices following up on constituent concerns. The report says the agency has general plans to keep updating the system, depending on the availability of funds.
• The Transportation Department’s Hazardous Materials Information System, used to track incidents and keep information regulators rely on. The system is about 41 years old, and vendors no longer support some of its software, which can create security risks. The department plans to complete its modernization program in 2018.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/government-wastes-billions-of-dollars-on-old-computers-report-says/?from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0

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• Some republican congressmen are blocking the update. -浅路明- ♀ (176 bytes) () 06/15/2017 postreply 20:07:33

• 用Cobol是事实，系统太大，要一下子转换不是容易的事。 -飞蝉- ♀ (86 bytes) () 06/16/2017 postreply 04:28:20