Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology: The United States Air Force Experience with Y2K (2007)

The study process involved several interview sessions and a workshop aimed at gathering perspectives and lessons learned from the Air Force’s Y2K response effort. These sessions were held as follows:

Interviews at Yokota Air Base (Japan), November 29–December 3, 1999

Interviews at Scott Air Force Base (Illinois), December 13–15, 1999

Interviews at Scott Air Force Base (Illinois), February 24–25, 2000

Interviews at Yokota Air Base (Japan), March 13, 2000

Air Force Y2K Lessons Learned Workshop (Washington, DC), April 14, 2000

This report draws extensively on quotations and other information from the workshop and interview sessions. Rather than use actual names in the citations, abbreviations of the organizational affiliations of speakers are given. This is a key of the cited organizational affiliations.

374th AW 374th Airlift Wing (Yokota Air Base, Japan)

374th AW/CES 374th Airlift Wing, Civil Engineering Squadron

374th AW/CS 374th Airlift Wing Communications Squadron

374th AW/LG 374th Airlift Wing Logistics Group

374th AW/OG 374th Airlift Wing Operations Group

374th AW/SC 374th Airlift Wing Systems and Computers

374th AW/XP 374th Airlift Wing Plans and Programs

375th AW 375th Airlift Wing (Scott Air Force Base, Illinois)

375th AW/CE 375th Airlift Wing, Civil Engineering

375th AW/CG 375th Airlift Wing Communications Group

375th AW/MDG 375th Airlift Wing Medical Group

375th AW/NCC 375th Airlift Wing Network Control Center

375th AW/Y2K 375th Air Wing Y2K Program Office

630th AMSS 630th Air Mobility Support Squadron (component of 374th AW)

ACC Air Combat Command

AFCA Air Force Communications Agency

AFCIC/SY Air Force Communications and Information Center

AF/XOIWD Air Force Director of Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance, Defensive Information Warfare Division

AMC/HQ Air Mobility Command Headquarters

AMC/SCA Air Mobility Command/Support Center Atlantic

AMC/SCP Air Mobility Command/Support Center Pacific

Cheyenne Mountain Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center

HQ/SC Headquarters United States Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Information

MITRE MITRE Corporation

MSG Materiel Systems Group

SAF/AQ Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisitions

SSG Standard Systems Group

USFJ United States Forces Japan