Pentagon plans using blockchain for advanced cyber defense

DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is currently assessing the blockchain technology’s usefulness for defense from external cyber-threats. Experiments with this technology will show how and where blockchain can save America’s financial system and improve defense communication. Along with other sources in the media, the memo that might further stimulate the interest of American authorities in blockchain has appeared on the website of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), the institution that invents new ways to counter terrorism.

As Washington Times reports, the U.S. military is also concerned with the latest cyber-intelligence achievements of China that might jeopardize the stability of market transactions and the national security of the United States. Analysts working in private companies (it is common in the USA that private companies advise the military on the latest technologies) suggest that blockchain has the defense potential so good that it might become a digital shield for the Department of Defense operations and communications. DARPA, in turn, is already developing a communication tech that will help not only generals in fancy buildings, but soldiers on the frontlines as well.

We have already seen the FSB (Federal Security Service) in Russia interested in blockchain for, quite possible, counter-intelligence upgrade too. As Justin Herman, the lead for the emerging citizen technology program at the General Services Administration governmental agency, puts it in one of his latest tweets: “Stop asking if any governments ARE looking at blockchain. Start asking if any governments AREN'T.”