This past May, the Internet was abuzz about a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighting a number of outdated \u201clegacy systems\u201d still in use across the U.S. government. According to the report, \u201cThe Strategic Automated Command and Control System coordinates the operational functions of the United States\u2019 nuclear forces, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers, and tanker support aircrafts. This system runs on an IBM Series\/1 Computer\u2014a 1970s computing system\u2014and uses 8-inch floppy disks.\u201d Many reading this article may have worked on similar systems when they were much younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This past May, the Internet was abuzz about a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighting a number of outdated \u201clegacy systems\u201d still in use across the U.S. government. According to the report, \u201cThe Strategic Automated Command and Control System coordinates the operational functions of the United States\u2019 nuclear forces, such as intercontinental ballistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n