Blockchain could become a part of the US military's strategic weaponry
SIMBA Chain beat competitors such as Boeing by using blockchain to underpin a war games solution for the U.S. Department of Defense. One often hears blockchain in the same breath as security and supply chains. This week, a winning entry to a competition organized by the United States Department of Defense cast both these aspects in a new light.To keep pace with the ever-more technologized battlelines of contemporary warfare, the DoD continues to explore ways to innovate the manufacturing process and supply chain for weaponry and infrastructure in use by the Air Force and avy. The Advanced....
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Blockchain firm SIMBA Chain won a contract to build a system to anticipate demand for "critical" military weaponry parts.
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....
SIMBA Chain has been tapped to beef up the supply chain of the United States Navy after receiving a $1.5 million research grant. SIMBA Chain, a cloud-based smart contract platform, has been tasked with revamping the supply chain of the United States military after it received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Office of Navy Research. The project will be responsible for developing a blockchain-based solution to enable demand sensing for critical military weaponry parts. Demand sensing is a forecasting technique used in supply chain logistics that processes information in real-time to....
The game filled with spaceships and new-age weaponry is powered by crypto tokens called Nexium. The gaming industry is slowly moving towards blockchain technology. A majority of blockchain based games in the present-day ecosystem falls into casino and gambling category. Breaking the cycle, Beyond the Void has introduced a truly decentralized Massive Online Battlefield Arena (MOBA) game that allows individuals to be more than just gamers on the platform. The game filled with spaceships and new-age weaponry is powered by crypto tokens called Nexium. The Nexium tokens, currently available at....
The communications arm of the intergovernmental military alliance North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is ending a submission period for an innovation contest in which it called on applicants to submit ideas for blockchain applications. Announced in late April, NATO's Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) is hosting the 2016 Innovation Challenge in a bid to develop "state-of-the-art technology solutions", according to the group. The deadline for submissions is today, with the winners expected to be notified by 20th May. Among the solutions NATO requested were....