US Defense Could Use Blockchain in Proprietary Messaging Platform
DARPA calls for proposals to develop blockchain based messaging application for military use. Communications plays a vital part in the military. The use of blockchain technology in military communications makes perfect sense, as security plays a crucial role in it. Having realized this, DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has called for proposals from technology companies and contractors to develop such an application for the United States military. This is not the first time the US Department of Defense has commissioned work on advanced information technology projects. It is....
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A major US defense agency devoted to advanced R&D is seeking to create a secure, blockchain-based messaging system. Disclosure of the still-theoretical system, comes courtesy of a notice posted to the website of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA), an office in the US Department of Defense (DoD) that has long played a role in promoting emerging technologies. Among the more famous DARPA projects as ARPANET, a predecessor of today’s Internet. According to the notice, DARPA is seeking pitches for a "secure messaging system" that would use a "decentralized....
Both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and NATO have put out requests for military-related apps built on blockchain technology, Quartz reports. DARPA wants to leverage blockchain technology to create a secure messaging service. The request for proposals, titled “Secure Messaging Platform” and listed under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, targets a messaging platform able to transfer messages via a secure decentralized protocol that will be secured across multiple channels, including, but not limited to:....
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Secured messaging has become crucially important. Blackberry used to be known for it, but the user needed their hardware. WhatsApp is more functional, but still requires a centralized, fallible infrastructure. Enter blockchain and DARPA… If you were to look up Topic # SB162-004 SBIR/ STTR Web Portal (I do not know why you ever would…) you find an interesting description of a secure messaging platform that DARPA hopes to create. DARPA’s objective is to: Create a secure messaging and transaction platform that separates the message creation, from the transfer (transport) and reception of the....