Federal Blockchain News

By Heraclitus, LLC

What's Federal Blockchain News about?

Federal Blockchain News is a podcast bringing you the latest news about US Federal Agencies leveraging blockchain technologies. Each week we talk with leading innovators throughout the field about their perspectives on blockchain and its implications for US Federal agencies, and bring you the latest news on Federal blockchain projects.

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Federal Blockchain News episodes:

03.15.2021
Army Research Lab's Tactical Distributed Ledger
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...
03.08.2021
HHS: Grants Digital Dossier
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.
03.01.2021
Blockchain Research Institute special report: New Directions for Government
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...
02.22.2021
MITRE: Grants Management with Blockchain
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...
02.15.2021
The Federal Blockchain Playbook
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...
02.08.2021
Campaign Finance: 4US & BlockApps enlist blockchain
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.
02.01.2021
Federal CIOs on Hurdles to Blockchain Adoption
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).
01.25.2021
Intro To Federal Blockchain News
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.
01.11.2021
US Treasury: Blockchain for Grants Management
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.
01.04.2021
USPTO: CIO Jamie Holcombe
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...
12.14.2020
Digital Identity Wallet UI Competition
Are blockchain-based identity wallets designed for engineers, not users? Kathleen Kenyon & Anil John Digital think so, and created the Digital Identity Wallet UI Design Competition. We talk with them, and with finalists Jeff Stephens of Dignari, Josh Welty of...
12.07.2020
MesurIO: Agriculture, Blockchain & Customs
Mesur.IO founder and Chief Technology Officer Mike Prorock talks about how blockchain will become an important component of agricultural commerce, and about his recent award from the DHS Silicon Valley Innovation Program to create an open source API layer and...
11.30.2020
USCIS: Blockchain-based Green Cards
US Citizenship and Immigration Services is working with private industry to develop digital verifiable credentials, starting with the permanent resident card. The new credentials would be issued and usable on smartphones using blockchain technologies. Jared Goodwin, Chief of the Document...
11.23.2020
Mavennet: Tracking Oil & Gas across the border
Mavennet CEO Patrick Mandic talks about tracking oil & gas imports across the US/Canada border with blockchain technologies.
11.16.2020
CBP: Blockchain for Import Security
Vincent Annunziato, Director of Transformation & Innovation Division of the CBP Office of Trade, talks about shaping blockchain technologies to make imports safer and more secure. CBP's current projects include tracking steel, oil, and natural gas imports from Canada.
11.09.2020
SecureKey: Replacing the SSN in DHS systems
An interview with CTO Dmitry Barinov of SecureKey Technologies, a Toronto-based firm known for its VerifiedMe platform, on the recent DHS Silicon Valley Innovation Program award to create an "alternative identifier to the Social security number", part of an effort...
11.02.2020
DHS: Melissa Oh & Anil John of Silicon Valley Innovation Program
Melissa Oh & Anil John of the Department of Homeland Security's Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) reveal the secret sauce of this one-of-a-kind federal innovation approach to push emerging blockchain products towards interoperability, and create solutions built-to-suit for DHS without...
10.26.2020
RevoltCypher CEO Mussie Haile
RevoltCypher CEO Mussie Haile shares his experiences delivering blockchain POCs for the federal government, including a Box-integrated platform for document sharing among parties in legal cases, and health record portability for the Veterans Administration.
10.19.2020
FonBnk CEO Chris Duffus on Blockchain-based Spectrum Allocation for the FCC
In the wake of the Nobel Prize for Economics honoring work that revolutionized how wireless spectrum is allocated in the US, we talk with serial fintech, wireless and blockchain entrepreneur Chris Duffus about how the FCC could use blockchain for...
10.12.2020
Redefining the Future of the Economy: Dawn Talbot & Ralph Benko
In their new book "Redefining the Future of the Economy: Governance Blocks & Economic Architecture," Co-Authors Dawn Talbot & Ralph Benko say the blockchain industry has failed to live up to its promise because it cannot reflect complex decision processes....
10.05.2020
Blockchain Platform Compliance with NIST & FISMA Standards
James Howard, PhD, discusses the findings of his paper "Blockchain Compliance with Federal Cryptographic Information Processing Standards", co-authored with Maria Vachino. The paper revealed that of the Ethereum, Corda, Fabric & Multichain platforms, only Corda meets FISMA standards.
09.25.2020
China's Blockchain Services Network
Victoria Adams, PhD & Jason Brett of the Value Technology Foundation preview their upcoming paper on the threat posed by China's Blockchain Services Network and what the United States needs to do to prevent China's technical hegemony.

What's Federal Blockchain News about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Federal Blockchain News episodes:

Army Research Lab's Tactical Distributed Ledger

HHS: Grants Digital Dossier

Blockchain Research Institute special report: New Directions for Government

MITRE: Grants Management with Blockchain

The Federal Blockchain Playbook

Campaign Finance: 4US & BlockApps enlist blockchain

Federal CIOs on Hurdles to Blockchain Adoption

Intro To Federal Blockchain News

US Treasury: Blockchain for Grants Management

USPTO: CIO Jamie Holcombe

Digital Identity Wallet UI Competition

MesurIO: Agriculture, Blockchain & Customs

USCIS: Blockchain-based Green Cards

Mavennet: Tracking Oil & Gas across the border

CBP: Blockchain for Import Security

SecureKey: Replacing the SSN in DHS systems

DHS: Melissa Oh & Anil John of Silicon Valley Innovation Program

RevoltCypher CEO Mussie Haile

FonBnk CEO Chris Duffus on Blockchain-based Spectrum Allocation for the FCC

Redefining the Future of the Economy: Dawn Talbot & Ralph Benko

Blockchain Platform Compliance with NIST & FISMA Standards

China's Blockchain Services Network