IPv6 news from FierceGovernmentIT

General Services Administration now has multiple working groups addressing the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and they are getting very close to resolving the issues that delayed Read more...

A new Federal Acquisition Regulation final rule embeds IPv6 even deeper into federal agency acquisition practices. The new rule, published Dec. 10, adds a new paragraph to FAR Part 7.105 to the Read more...

In January, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra will begin meeting with agency CIOs to check on progress in implementing a September OMB mandate to use native IPv6 in public facing Read more...

The Office of Management and Budget has new guidance for agency adoption of Internet protocol version 6, saying that the transition will ensure that federal information technology modernization Read more...

Industry is lagging in converting to the next generation of Internet protocol, version 6, and the government should step in to speed it up, said Vint Cerf, the man who helped invent TCP/IP. Cerf Read more...

Further research is needed to ensure the cybersecurity of a smart grid, according to a newly released set of guidelines from a public-private group formed under the aegis of the National Institute of Read more...

A global transition to the next generation of Internet protocol, IPv6, could lead to more cyber attacks in the short run, says the military network security manager of one of the few organizations to Read more...

What do your appliances say about you? A lot, as it turns out. And as efforts continue toward the replacement of an aging electricity infrastructure with a smart grid based on real-time information Read more...

A new generation of Internet Protocols known as IPv6 has new security features, but it may not be that much more secure than the current system in use. Brett Thorson, a security adviser to the North Read more...

IPv6 has been lying in wait for the last couple of years. But now the Federal CIO Council has issued a road map showing the next steps agencies should be taking to deploy secure, IPv6-enabled network Read more...