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

Wired reports that one of DOGE’s many government initiatives is an attempt to rewrite the Social Security Administration codebase in a more modern programming language in just a few months.

Many banks and other financial institutions operate on IBM mainframes with code written in an ancient language. What are ...

According to IBM, COBOL stands for common business-oriented language and is a high-level compiled programming language developed for business data processing needs. COBOL is an over 50-year-old ...

The Department of Government Efficiency aims to migrate the SSA's infrastructure away from its decades-old COBOL programming language in just a few months. Experts warn that such an aggressive ...

Critics complain that the COBOL programming language, widely in use in the SSA, is old and outdated. This is wrong. The SSA delivered $1.3 trillion in benefits to 70 million beneficiaries in 2023 ...