IP Address Systems Transitions: if You're not on Your Toes, could Waste Well Over $7 million a Day Just on Government Spending

"In mid-February, the White House proposed spending $2.3 billion on cybersecurity at the Defense Department in the release of its 2012 budget request."
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2011/03/defense-funding-for-cybersecurity-is-hard-to-pin-down/48788/ [March 29, 2011]

   The Defense Department is just one example.  On a nationwide level, where some offices in less significant priority positions are still just now getting computers, there are computers and their connections to the Internet that is an immense proportion.  Illustrating directly below:
FY 2013 spending budget in millions of dollars as put by Federal Information Technology FY 2013 Budget Priorities:

• Department, Agency, or Body; between $1,345.30 and $1,461.50, per each: SSA, NASA, Department of State
• Department, Agency, or Body; between $65.00 and $99.50, per each: Smithsonian Institution, OPM, Nat'l Science Foundation, NARA
• Department, Agency, or Body; between $111.60 and $151.40 per each: SBA, NRC, U.S. Agency for International Development
• Department, Agency, or Body; between $392.30 and $965.10 per each: GSA, Department of Education, department of Housing and urban Development, department of Labor, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, EPA, 
• Department, Agency, or Body; $2033.00 and upward: Department of Agriculture, department of Commerce, DOE, DHHS, DHS, DOJ, DOT, Department of Veterans Affairs

Specifics at: http://www.cio.gov/FY2013-IT.pdf

How much is $2.3 billion dollars averaged out to per day?  2 billion for the year averaged on a per day is $5,479,452.05

   the .3 billion is about $666666666.67 a year, and the daily average for the year is, $1,826,484.02

The total proposed of 2.3 billion, as long as the math is at least in the ballpark, is $7,305,936.07 a day

Each day, that over $7 million dollars is spent, if the money is not spent in the exact and correct way it should, when it could be directed to something else, can have a huge impact.

This might be a reason, why new IP addresses is important.

The IP address system is up for a change, closing in real soon, and real fast.

The older IP address system, that most people are used to on regular everday U.S. citizen jobs, can't take any more website addresses.

What happens/ what is the solution?  A new system of IP addresses that can hold a whole bunch more than what the current can is being developed.

The repercussions, include, although some computers and computing systems will be still be able to adapt to the newer IP address system, they will not necessarily be designed for such; basically, all those old computers, even if they were purchased yesterday, are no good, defunct, obsolete, whichever word strikes you.

$7 million a day on cybersecurity: for each day of IT spending, let's hope it is the right moves, the emphasis here, is in consideration of IP address transitions.

Spelling it out, $7 million dollars worth of cybersecurity spending measures for something that the next day could turn out to be a wasted spend, is something that very well could be avoided.

Even if it is calculated down to the hour, the cost per the 2.3 billion proposition, is $304,414 an hour averaged.  Take a 1 hour lunch break right when the transition of IP addresses occurred, or cybersecurity related stuff was being ordered, and by the time you come back to your office, if it was the wrong stuff, then in that one hour, over $300,000 of tax payers dollars was just wasted.

And,
"On March 23, officials amended that response and provided a higher total -- $3.2 billion -- to reflect the cost of information assurance "program elements" at individual agencies and services, plus activities typically not defined as information assurance that are critical to the military's overall cyber stance."
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2011/03/defense-funding-for-cybersecurity-is-hard-to-pin-down/48788/
'Defense Funding for Cybersecurity is Hard to Pin Down'

And,
"Of the president’s $3.7 trillion 2012 budget proposal, Haney pointed out, only $1.2 trillion represents the discretionary budget, accounts from which IT funds are normally drawn. ...
...Despite the slow-down, federal IT spending to commercial contractors is expected to grow about 5 percent annually, according to Input, which sizes the 2010 federal IT market at about $86 billion."
http://gcn.com/articles/2011/04/20/input-2012-budget-analysis.aspx
'Federal IT spending to increase 5 percent, analyst says' [April 20, 2011]

To be added to this blog post soon:

• Cloud Computing Strategy
• About the IP change