Yes, Social Security Administration systems that rely on COBOL need to be updated. No, Elon, it can't be done quickly.

The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Steve Davis, embarks on a daring mission to modernize the Social Security ...

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) embarks on an ambitious plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration's ...

COBOL remains so widely used in our financial system that 95% of ATM transactions rely on it. There are 220 billion lines of ...

DOGE wants to replace an old programming language at the social security fund in the shortest possible time. Experts are alarmed.

A 2022 study on government COBOL system replacements revealed that projects with just 10–20 million lines of code often took more than seven years to complete. Musk’s team appears to believe ...

The computer database used by the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles has been there for decades and still uses decades-old technology called COBOL. Meet some of the original computers that ran the ...

According to the SSA, its software systems contain more than 60 million lines of COBOL code. Originally released in 1960, COBOL is a relatively simple programming language geared towards writing ...

Watsonx Code Assistant for Z will eventually modernize billions of lines of COBOL code while preserving IBM Z performance, security and resiliency, according to the vendor. COBOL was created in ...