The United States Department of Defense has announced that it is planning to use blockchain technology for improving the disaster relief operations in the US.

Reportedly, the officials of the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Continuous Process Development (CPI) office in Philadelphia reviewed and studied how the ledger technology could be used to handle emergencies. For the case study, the officials considered the relief operations carried out during Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

The implementation of blockchain will focus on the centralized aspects of the current system, mainly the areas of logistics and methods of data sharing. Moreover, the Defense Department is also reviewing to consider the transaction processing and in-transit visibility of shipments.