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<TITLE>NIH Guide: NOTICE REGARDING THE YEAR 2000 COMPUTER PROBLEM</TITLE>
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<META NAME="Publication_Date" CONTENT="April 3, 1998">
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NOTICE REGARDING THE YEAR 2000 COMPUTER PROBLEM
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Release Date: April 3, 1998
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P.T.
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National Institutes of Health
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As part of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) activities related to
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potential Year 2000 computer problems, NIH wishes to remind its awardees of
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their responsibilities under NIH grants and cooperative agreements.
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Recipients of NIH grants and cooperative agreements generally have full
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responsibility for the scientific, administrative, and financial aspects of
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the activity being supported. This responsibility extends to anticipating and
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reacting to events such as the Year 2000 and taking all steps necessary to
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mitigate potential problems that might be caused by the Year 2000.
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Many computer systems and software applications may experience operational
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difficulties because they are unable to handle the change from the year 1999
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to the year 2000. Others may fail because they do not properly consider 2000
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a leap year. For computer systems and software applications that use two
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digits to represent the year, calculations, comparisons, and data sorting may
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be adversely affected. This would include computer systems ranging from the
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desktop to the largest mainframe.
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Awardees should also be aware that the Year 2000 may affect electronic devices
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utilizing embedded microchips that perform date-based calculations.
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Biomedical devices and other laboratory equipment may depend upon embedded
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date functions. If the chip receives what it perceives to be an invalid date,
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it may fail, impacting important experiments. False date comparisons may
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invalidate test results, leading to false conclusions.
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NIH awardees are expected to ensure that the NIH activity being supported is
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not adversely affected by the Year 2000 problem. Potentially affected items
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include: computer systems, software applications, databases, and equipment.
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If an application deals with dates, that application must be Year 2000
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compliant before the first use of dates beyond December 31, 1999. The
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National Institutes of Health should be notified by September 1998 if an
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awardee concludes that the Year 2000 will have significant impact on its
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ability to carry out an NIH-funded activity.
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All electronic data submitted to NIH from grantee institutions requires a
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four-digit year date field. This format is recommended in the Federal
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Information Processing Standard Publication 4-1 (FIPS PUB 4-1). Data that is
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noncompliant is not accepted. Systems being developed under NIH's Electronic
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Research Administration (ERA) initiative will also be compliant and will
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require a four-digit year element. Institutions exchanging electronic
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research administration data with NIH will need to be able to interface with
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these systems. NIH's Point of Contact for questions related to ERA Year 2000
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data exchanges is the Commons, Extramural Inventions and Technical Resources
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Branch (ComEITR), Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration,
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Office of Extramural Research, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Suite 3190, Bethesda, MD
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20892, 301-435-1986, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7c1b19130e1b19230f081312193c121514521b130a">[email protected]</a>. Information related to NIH's
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Electronic Research Administration initiative can be found at
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<a href="/grants/oer.htm">http://www.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm</a>.
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Information pertaining to the NIH-wide Year 2000 activities can be found at
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NIH's Office of Information Resource Management's (OIRM) web site at
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http://wwwoirm.nih.gov/y2000/. This site includes a link to FIPS PUB 4-1.
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Information concerning interagency Year 2000 activities, plans, and issues can
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be found on the General Services Administration's web site at
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<a href="https://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov">http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov</a> under the Year 2000 Information Directory.
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