Bob Bennett to be laid to rest in Salt Lake City on Saturday

Bennett stayed on top of developing technologies and helped lead government Y2K preparations ahead of the new millennium amid fears that the transition from 1999 to 2000 would cause major computer glitches.

There were no significant problems, but officials say the preparations ensured no disastrous shutdown of computer systems, including those at the Department of Defense.

After leaving the Senate, Bennett ran a consulting business, worked as a Washington lobbyist and was a resident scholar at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics.