The research division of the United States Department of Defense(DoD) is all set to explore the use of blockchain for military and defense. Its defense branch, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will experiment with blockchain for military. It will create a more “efficient, robust and secure” network for the military.

The DoD is embarking on an effort to modernize its digital environment to gain great power competition. In this regard, the department released a document titled DoD Digital Modernization Strategy. The document details a roadmap for DoD’s priorities, which include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud, and command, control and communications.

According to DARPA, the blockchain communication platform would allow the transmission of secure messages from anywhere. Also, it will allow personnel to process transactions that can be traced through channels of a decentralized ledger.

As per our source, DARPA is also working on ways to create codes that cannot be hacked. It is doing so with the help of blockchain. The technology could potentially allow the tracking of the hackers themselves. This is because their information would also be displayed courtesy of the network.

The US Department of Defense had previously used blockchain technology for improving disaster relief operations in the US.