On the 12th July, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its plans for digitization over the next four years, including blockchain security. The document, the DoD Digital Modernization Strategy, emphasizes innovation and the cultivation of talent to improve cybersecurity.
The DoD has one of the world’s largest IT networks with a 2019 budget of over $46 billion, as the strategy document reveals. Managing it and keeping it secure is unsurprisingly one of the department’s key remits. Now, along with AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum computing, we know that the organization is experimenting with blockchain-based security.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), essentially the R&D arm of the DoD, has been testing out protocols for securing messages and transactions. History logs of these activities can be stored on a blockchain, so any evidence of hacking cannot be removed or changed.
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