Federal Blockchain News

The US Army Research Lab has a vision for blockchain on the battlefield, coordinating sensors, drones, vehicles and soldiers in hostile, low-bandwidth, high-latency environments. Dr. Manny Vindiola and Dr. Charles Kamhoua discuss their work on the Tactical Distributed Ledger and its implications for warfighters and civilian applications.

Mike Peckham of HHS reveals how he is returning $142M to mission by implementing blockchain for multi-agency grant risk review with the HHS Grant Digital Dossier.

The Blockchain Research Institute's new Special Report "New Directions for Government in the Second Era of the Digital Age" calls for the Biden-Harris Administration to uproot generations of legacy federal IT to leverage blockchain, IoT, and AI. We hear from co-author Don Tapscott why federal adoption of Self Sovereign (Decentralized) Digital Identity is as important as fighting climate change.

At least three blockchain pilots focus on streamlining management of the over $750 billion that the US Federal government distributes each year, often through multiple administrative layers. Marla Ozarowski shares MITRE's Grants Management Blockchain demonstration project, which aims to create a working proof of concept demonstrating end-to-end business use cases incorporating and improved by blockchain technologies.

A council of federal and industry technolgy leaders known as ACT-IAC has created a "Blockchain Playbook" for the US Federal Government. The playbook is a 100-page guide to implementing blockchain projects from problem assessment through implementation and integration. On this episode we hear from two authors of the playbook and the leaders of the ACT-IAC Blockchain Working Group, Frederic Devaulx and Todd Hager. You can find the playbook on the ACT-IACT website, we also keep a copy on the Federal Blockchain News website, and there is an interactive version on Github.

Campaign finance software creator Schweitzer Laboratories has enlisted BlockApps to create blockchain-enabled transparency for campaign finance reporting. Hear fromWill Schweitzer, Blockapps CEO Kieren James-Lubin, and former FEC Chair Ann Ravel about using blockchain to bring trust back to America's elections.

Three former cabinet-level CIOs weigh in on the federal government's slow pace of blockchain adoption. Featuring Joyce Hunter (Agriculture), Pete Tseronis (Energy & Education), and Jose Arietta (Health & Human Services).

Host John Stevens on the Federal Blockchain News mission, what's happening in the federal blockchain market now, and why the US form of governance is ideal among governments for transformation with blockchain.

Federal blockchain innovator Craig Fischer discusses the current project at US Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service to relieve the burden of grant reporting through multiple layers of sub-recipients.

The US Patent and Trademark Office is the world's premier registrar of intellectual property, a "single source of truth" function that might lend itself to blockchain technologies. CIO Jamie Holcombe says identity verification with blockchain might be in the future for USPTO and talks about navigating changes in policy & law when considering a distributed ledger to store patents & trademarks. Among the interesting questions: do we start with patent #1 (applicant: George Washington)?