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Office of Information Technology Category: GSA hosted a Blockchain Training Day (5.5 CLP) was delivered by subject matter experts to meet the objectives outlined in the Blockchain training curriculum. GSA is positioned to advise and assist the development of Blockchain proof-of-concepts and to assist agencies to prepare the procurement plans for proof-of-concepts.
Emerging Citizen Technology: GSA’s Emerging Citizen Technology program launched the government-wide Blockchain initiative, including both an internal federal community of more than 200 managers and a public-facing listserv of more than 100 U.S. businesses, researchers, subject matter experts and more. It also launched the U.S. Federal Blockchain Forum and “Emerging Tech and Open Data for a More Open Government,” a workshop to draft the first potential national goals for Blockchain through Open Government, as well as this U.S. Emerging Citizen Technology Atlas.
Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) organized The “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-Related Research” Ideation Challenge to solicit white papers on the topic of Blockchain technology and the potential use in health IT to address privacy, security, and scalability challenges of managing electronic health records and resources. For more information on the challenge, visit the website.
ONC also hosted a workshop, the Use of Blockchain in Healthcare and Research, with NIST to discuss the outcomes of the challenge and provide deeper materials into uses of Blockchain. For more an information and workshop materials, visit the website.
Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is taking the lead with research and development projects in this area to determine viable uses for the technology. Cutting through the sensationalism associated with such a product, S&T sees the reality of blockchain’s promise. With such potential, proving the security and privacy aspects is precisely where S&T currently is focusing its resources. It is doing so
via Small Business Innovation Research projects to investigate the various capabilities of blockchain. This includes security and privacy characteristics as well as exploring
its immutability, data integrity and anti-spoofing aspects via a Silicon Valley Innovation Program project. If these research projects bear fruit, S&T will begin developing ways to
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