Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 | by C. Benjamin Ford | Staff Writer
Other departments could face breakdowns similar to traffic system failure, officials say
Montgomery County would need to spend $348 million to upgrade its aging information technology systems to prevent a disruption in important services at other departments on a scale of last month's traffic signal system failure, according to an updated technology report.
The signal problems blamed on a traffic management computer system dating to the 1980s should be a wakeup call for the county that other important information technology systems are aging, county officials said at a County Council committee briefing Monday.
The briefing was on an updated report on the county's IT systems, called "Risk and Consequences," that was prepared by the county's Interagency Technology Policy and Coordination Committee.
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