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, with the depletion of the remaining IPv4 address spaces in under a year; the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issues 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 NEW 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.

Who Should Attend

The intended audience for the course is agency IPv6 Program / Transition leads, CIOs, Chief Architects, their associated staffs, as well as any individuals seeking to better understand the roles and next steps of the IPv6 transition within the U.S. Government.  These individuals may include senior-level executives and planners, as well as technologists who will be involved in implementing the next generation networking and application initiatives of the new Administration.

Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for this Executive Level course are focused on providing agencies with the information necessary to build and execute their IPv6 implementation plans, including:

• High-level understanding of IPv6,
• Federal IPv6 directives, policies and guidance,
• A roadmap of what must be accomplished for a successful transition,
• Major steps and challenges during the transition, and
• Best practices from industry and other agencies.