Fluree of Winston-Salem, NC announced on February 6 that it has won a
contract from the United States Air Force (USAF) to bring commercial
best-in-class technologies to the Air Force and U.S. Department of Defense
(DoD). As part of the Small Business Innovation Research AFWERX technology innovation program, Fluree’s data management platform
was selected to provide the USAF with secure, worldwide command-and-control
communications using an encrypted, distributed, blockchain-backed graph
database shared between partners.
Secure communications are at the heart of all successful
operations, and especially critical for the Air Force and Department of
Defense. Fluree ensures complete data integrity by combining transactions into
immutable time-stamped “blocks” and locking each block in via advanced
cryptography.
Along with high levels of security, the USAF demands
interoperability for its departments around the globe. Fluree will meet this
demand by leveraging blockchain cryptography, semantic data standard
formatting, and configurable rules written directly to the ledger to facilitate
interoperable communication across the DoD network and its worldwide partners.
“Fluree is uniquely suited to provide a distributed communication
network that supports the interoperability and scalability requirements of both
legacy and evolving government systems,” said Brian Platz, co-CEO of Fluree.
“The Fluree solution leverages a blockchain architecture for security while
supporting the storage of large data volumes following FAIR data principles in
the integrated graph database. We’re excited about the opportunity to provide
U.S. Air Force customers with an enterprise-grade data management platform.”
The initial contract calls for Fluree to partner with a department within the USAF to develop a platform capable of facilitating Multi-domain Command and Control (MDC2) operations for the DoD and its global allied partners. Additionally, Fluree will conduct Voice of the Customer (VOC) events to identify specific customer needs and develop a plan for a prototype deployment of the Fluree data management platform to interoperate with the existing DoD systems.
Source: Fluree
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