PERSPECTIVES OF MILITARY APPLICATION OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

New cutting-edge technologies tend to have a huge impact on how businesses innovate to improve their competitive advantage. Since the advent of the Internet, blockchain technology has been recognized as one of the explosive innovations of the early 21st century. Blockchain technology is currently used in financial applications (e.g. payments, currency exchange, money transfers and wallets, trade finance, markets, microdeals, investments, brokerage, insurance) as well as non-financial applications (e.g. electronic identity management, authentication and authorization, electronic data storage and delivery systems, certification systems, smart contracts, application development, electronic voting in elections, patient medical record management, workload distribution for communication systems, computer systems that must comply requirements of legislation without human intervention, the Internet of Things, etc.). And yet, the use of blockchain is most justified when solving tasks mainly related to ensuring the integrity of stored information. That is why, in this article, we consider the prospects for the application of blockchain technology in military affairs, analyze its properties, consider the problems and provide solutions that open up with the beginning of the use of this technology. Blockchain technology is able to strengthen the defense sector of the state and introduce an additional level of protection to the already existing ones.