Finally after months and months of 'Bengazi' and morphed into 'Hillary E-Mails' Congressional investigations, Conservatives have nothing else like Governing to do, the Media and the Country have something real to sink their claws into and, as for the media, report reality on, maybe finally do something about!
Of course they won't, DeJa-Vu, the 'rage' is all about another Clinton, forget that the exact same and more went on during the GWB administration and with Congresses A'OK apparently!!
The GAO report delving into the archaic Government systems, if Congress was doing their jobs the Government would be leading all along in the advancing technologies that then would be shared with the private sector, as Military and Veterans research and development are, are just the tip of the many problems within, especially the VA, as issues are just ignored or denied existence of, to the detriment of the Society and for many the Planet! The antiquated systems can't be shared, if at all, easily across agencies that would need and help alleviate extremely costly problems that in attempting to fix create even more, over and over again. but boy do they sound good and help pointless dangerous ideologies when made into months long media hyped 'scandals' for political and personal needs, and to keep the people served from demanding they should 'sacrifice' at all. Nor can they be shared with individuals, in a timely or otherwise manner, seeking help and information on their own needs. As to the VA for the first time in my lifetime and especially as to the Veterans Administration a whole Executive Branch has been working continuously, with no help from Congress nor the People Served, to build as much as possible what was promised from the beginning!! Here's hoping that continues, but more hope is that the flag waving poser patriotic civilians, many vets as well, start demanding they actually 'sacrifice' and keep their otah and promises too!!!!!!
Been Conservative ideology for years and Country served likes it that way, because by actually fixing their Government it would take huge costs, saving huge amounts when working and maintained correctly going forward. Instead of the piecemeal, in the case of the VA especially, superficial mostly unfunded fixes, if any, that neither fix the ongoing, same, problems but create more added very costly problems. To then become future media hyped long running 'scandals' as the Country served stays on board the Conservative goal to privatize for corporate profit with little to no regulation, government of the corporation and not the people!!
As the Obama administration entered they instantly started getting attacked, by the poser patriots served and through their, especially conservatives, representatives. Not only as to the VA as the total legislative obstruction, and was voiced as the conservative policy forward, began. As to the VA attacks on it's personal, with no guilt by those representatives and people served, it was asked with not one but two long destructive wars and occupations ongoing, DeJa-Vu:
50-year-old Cobol code, 8-inch floppies, and PowerBuilder live on in government IT.
26, May 2016 - Some of the most critical business systems run by US government agencies are older than many of the IT people who support them, written in mainframe assembler code or COBOL. That might not shock or surprise anyone who works in mainframe-centric industries like insurance and finance, where the time-tested reliability of some systems has granted them lives that reach back to the Johnson administration. But a new GAO report has called out some of these systems as being so archaic that they're consuming increasingly larger portions of agencies' IT budgets just for operation and maintenance. As the breach at the Office of Personnel Management demonstrated, old systems are also a security risk—particularly when they've been "updated" with now-unsupported versions of Windows Server and Internet and database components that were end-of-life'd by their creators years ago.
To drive those points home, the report—written by David A. Powner, GAO's Director for Information Technology Management Issues—called out specific legacy systems from multiple agencies that are particularly obsolete, reliant on older programming languages and older computing technology that are no longer supported. To help members of Congress too young to remember them, the report also included an infographic (as show above) to explain what an 8-inch floppy disk was.
Of the top ten oldest systems cited by GAO, six are over 50 years old—and five of the ten oldest systems, all dating from before the 1980s, are not slated to be replaced anytime soon. And it should come as no surprise that the two oldest systems in government are at the Internal Revenue Service, and both will remain in place for some time.
To be fair, the "ages" of these systems represent how long the agencies have been investing in them and not necessarily their technology base. Many of them have had major updates to their components, if not their core code. But for the most part, those that have been updated are still based on more recent—but still obsolete and unsupported—operating systems and software.
The Old 10 are:
snip {4:} Personnel and Accounting Integrated Data, Department of Veterans Affairs—53 years old. Human Resources systems are one of the most common sinkholes for legacy technology. This system is VA's time and attendance system, and it was written in COBOL. VA is planning to replace it with a shared service in 2017, as part of the ongoing consolidation of like systems across the government.
{6:} Benefits Delivery Network, Department of Veterans Affairs—51 years old. This cluster of COBOL mainframe applications is what VA uses to track veterans' benefits, eligibility for access to benefits, and their dates of death, among other things. The VA is planning to roll it into another system someday, but there's no timeframe set. read more>>>
Photo 2012 : 2 April 2013 - Veterans Affairs Backlog Files Stacked So High, They Posed Safety Risk to Staff
One may ask why with the advancing computer technologies, to be quickly shared securely where needed, were the Veterans Administration still not only using all paper files but filling empty spaces, the size of warehouses, with stacks upon stacks of and needing even more empty big spaces to store same. Oh wait, someone did, {above} at a Congressional hearing joining the already many voices of veterans saying same for the previous decades. One could also ask why with two more wars, extremely quickly abandoning the missions and those sent to accomplish same after 9/11 wasn't Congress demanding the Country served 'sacrifice' during the war drums beating and after the invasions, to today. Doing what Congress is charged to do, agency budget needs and enhanced maintenance upgrading to give full support to the few who actually 'sacrifice', and their families, thus saving treasury funds and alleviating the many sure to come from not doing so media hyped 'scandals' that are often repeated and rippled out to more problems! Where finally with the Obama Executive Administration and it's Cabinet giving aid to first Sec. Shinseki, with a target on him from the beginning by Conservatives, and continuing with Sec. McDonald, Conservatives thought they finally got a like minded Corporate privatization executive in leadership of, finding out quickly they didn't so he now has their target on him. Fighting to build what already should have existed and patch up the years of unfunded poser patriotic congressional fixes that just kept creating more problems. Taking care of not only the new members of the war theater veterans community, and the rest of the few who serve, but addressing theirs and the many long ignored and outright denied even existed of previous decades and especially wars from, with no help from Congress and the People Served issues.
5/25/16 - Clinton e-mail report illustrates antiquated IT system
Rachel Maddow looks at how a new inspector general's report on Hillary Clinton's violation of State Department e-mail rules describes the archaic archiving system Clinton was supposed to have followed.
While this GAO report was focused more on the months long investigating of the SoS Clinton use of a private secure server in her home for e-mail's as others used same but not home bound and privately monitored, not a proper choice as to public records of those who work for same, that frankly might have been a good idea knowing how congress doesn't work as it's supposed to, this about the government agencies should be what is really reported on by professional journalists for the people!! But hey, how much did they do, as to technology and e-mails of, as to the just previous two SoS's Rice and Powell and not only their use of but destruction of the the peoples records! Or how about the entire Bush administration, along with so much more the Country should have Demanded Accountability for, they and the Conservative Congresses of, and the destruction of including probably correspondence with others outside of Government!! Wonder if the Rice and Powell e-mails were on those and in with the, supposedly, destroyed records on the RNC servers?!
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