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This is one in a series of reports being issued by the Inspector General, DoD, in accordance with an informal partnership with the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to monitor DoD efforts to address the year 2000 computing challenge. For a list of audit projects addressing the issue, see the year 2000 web page on the IGnet at http: //www. ignet. gov. The Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station-Pacific located in Wahiawa, Hawaii, provides operational direction and management to all Naval Computer and Telecommunications System assets in the Pacific area of responsibility. The Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station-Pacific satellite earth station is the primary DoD communications installation in the Pacific and is the Navy's largest communication station providing fleet and joint support. U.S.S. Blue Ridge (LCC-19), home ported in Yokosuka, Japan, is the flagship of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Blue Ridge functions as a Joint Task Force command ship whose mission is to serve as a command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence platform. The 58th Signal Battalion located on the island of Okinawa, Japan, provides global command, control, communications, information technology, and logistics support to joint Service warfighters. Under the control of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Battalion operates and maintains control of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Pacific contingency satellite earth station and two fixed satellite earth terminals.