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The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all Social Security Administration systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months.
A few months. That is how long it would take to migrate a system like this from one version of Java to another.
This is, of course, the point. There is no downside for Elon. At worst, you keep millions of retirees from getting the money they put into the system, which is fine by him.