Government IPv6: A Roadmap to Meeting the OMB Directive and Successfully Implementing IPv6 in Your Agency

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid.  In addition, the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issue that must be met to ensure continued use and expansion of the Internet for commercial and government services.

On September 28, 2010, The CIO for the Federal government released a memorandum on IPv6 requiring agencies to:

• Designate an agency IPv6 Transition Manager;
• Comply with  FAR requirements to utilize the USGv6 Profile & Test program for IT products;
• Operationally utilize native IPv6 on all external facing servers & services by end of FY2012; and
• Operationally utilize native IPv6 on all internal applications and networks by end of FY2014;

This Executive Level, two day training seminar, will provide agencies, their contractors, and the supporting government community with a roadmap to meeting the IPv6 transition objectives for the OMB 2012 and 2014 directives.  It will provide a deeper understanding of IPv6, new policies and guidance from OMB and the Federal IPv6 Task Force, the recently added FAR requirements, and the USGv6 Profile and Test program developed by NIST.  The seminar will identify the steps agencies must take to securely and successfully deploy IPv6 and meet the OMB directives and provide checklists for agencies to use in the development and execution of their IPv6 implementation plans.