“Jose Arrieta, associate deputy assistant secretary for Acquisition at the Department of Health and Human Services, discusses how blockchain can be used to streamline the acquisition process.
Blockchain has been increasingly growing in popularity over the past several years. The distributed ledger system has applications in banking and identification, but agencies across the government are researching their own use cases for the technology. According to Jose Arrieta, associate deputy assistant secretary for acquisition at the Department of Health and Human Services, blockchain has great potential for use in government acquisition.
“Think about an industry partner… logging into 22 systems to provide their information to an agency to do contracting work with them. If you can layer all of those systems with a…” Read the full article here.
Source: Government Matters: Potential of blockchain in government acquisition – By Andrew Wagner, Published Sunday, April 1, 2018.
