Blockchain will become the main technology for the work of American civil and military government agencies.
The US federal government intends to increase spending on the blockchain 10 times – such data is contained in the report IDC Government Insights. According to the authors of the study, the amount of spending on this direction will increase to $ 123.5 million by the end of 2021, while in 2017 only funds worth $ 10.7 million were allocated.
It is also expected that spending on the implementation of distributed registry technology will also grow at the state and municipal level: in total, they will invest $ 48.2 million in this area over the same period, which is also about 10 times more than in 2017, when these goals were spent 4.4 million dollars.
If we talk about the structure of spending, then at least four times the costs of federal civilian authorities will increase, from less than 20 million to more than 80 million dollars over a specified period. The US Department of Defense will spend up to $ 40 million instead of $ 20 million, as in 2017.
As the head of the IDC research unit, Sean McCarthy, notes:
“We are confident that blockchain solutions will dominate in such issues of government functioning as state property management, identification of citizens at the border, as well as government procurement, when in the latter case everything goes from paper workflow to smart contracts .”
In the near future, much attention will be paid to investment in blockchains to improve logistics, including the deployment of new US military units in the EU countries. In addition, the distributed registry technology will continue its intensive distribution in financial transactions.
Publication date 20/04/2019
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