118 STAT. 1850 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 (B) to administer any resulting contracts; and (2) has implemented a comprehensive and reliable system to track and assess the cost and quality of the performance of functions of the Department of Defense by service contrac tors. Subtitle D—Information Technology SEC. 331. PREPARATION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PLAN FOR TRANSITION TO INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6. (a) TRANSITION PLAN REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense shall prepare a plan detailing the Department of Defense strategy to provide for the transition of the Department’s information tech nology systems to Internet Protocol version 6 from the present use of Internet Protocol version 4 and other network protocols. In preparing the transition plan, the Secretary shall compare pri vate industry plans for the transition to Internet Protocol version 6. (b) ELEMENTS OF PLAN.—The transition plan required by sub section (a) shall include the following: (1) An outline of the networking and security system equip ment that will need to be replaced in the transition, including the timing and costs of such replacement. (2) An assessment of how the current and new networks and security systems will be managed. (3) An assessment of the potential impact of the transition, including an overall cost estimate for the transition and an estimate of the costs to be incurred by each of the military departments and the Defense Agencies. (4) Any measures proposed to alleviate any adverse effects of the transition. (c) TESTING AND EVALUATION FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL.—To determine whether a change to the use of Internet Protocol version 6 will support Department of Defense requirements, the Secretary of Defense shall provide for rigorous, real world, end to end testing of Internet Protocol version 6, as proposed for use by the Depart ment, to evaluate the following: (1) The ability of Internet Protocol version 6, with its ‘‘best effort’’ quality of service, to satisfactory support the Department’s multiple applications and other information tech nology systems, including the use of Internet Protocol version 6 over bandwidth constrained tactical circuits. (2) The ability of the Department’s networks using Internet Protocol version 6 to respond to, and perform under, heavy loading of the core networks. (d) REPORTS ON PLAN AND TEST RESULTS.—(1) Not later than March 31, 2005, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the transition plan prepared under subsection (a). (2) Not later than September 30, 2005, the Director of Oper ational Test and Evaluation shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing an update on the continuing test program and any test results.
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