Blockchain Industry Call-In

The Department of Defense’s USTRANSCOM office is hosting a teleconference on October 31, 2017, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm Central Time, aimed at providing industry participants an opportunity to clarify the Government’s focus for papers related to experience, expertise, and success with distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain. This call is intended to outline the objectives of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) and USTRANSCOM’s interest in leveraging these agreements to explore future capabilities. The teleconference will include presentations by USTRANSCOM’s Innovation Unit on key areas of interest, including vulnerabilities of distributed ledger techniques, prerequisites for successful implementation, and the scalability and extensibility of these technologies in multiparty domains. The session will conclude with a question and answer segment, allowing potential respondents to engage directly with Government representatives, including the Principal Investigator and the Office of Research and Technology Applications. Participants in the call-in can remain anonymous by identifying themselves only by the last three digits of their zip code if they prefer. The call-in number is provided to facilitate this open dialogue. The teleconference is part of the process for responding to a Request for Information (RFI), with a whitepaper submission deadline set for November 3, 2017, at 5:00 pm Central Time. This initiative demonstrates USTRANSCOM’s proactive approach to engaging with industry experts to understand and potentially apply blockchain and distributed ledger technologies within its operations, fostering collaboration under CRADAs to drive innovation and address operational challenges in a secure and scalable manner.