U.S Air Force Adds IBM Q Network… or IBM Q Network Adds U.S. Air Force (?) AFRL, IBM to pioneer Quantum Information Technology for DOD Excerpts and salient points ~ + The Air Force Research Laboratory is breaking new ground in their efforts to partner […]
Space: The Next Threat to Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Experts Worry About Satellite & Space Systems Excerpts and salient points ~ + Little surprise, then, that cybersecurity and policy experts worry that the relative insecurity of satellite systems open them to attack. In a paper released by […]
U.S. Air Force Courts Prospective Cutting-edge Tech Company “Spectral Quantum Technologies” Catalyst Campus Overflows for AFRL Space Accelerator Demo Day Excerpts and salient points ~ + [T]he Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate and the Catalyst Space Accelerator were looking for non-traditional companies that […]
NATO Awardee Believes Quantum Attacks are Grave Concern Who is Prof. Otokar Grošek? Excerpts and salient points ~ + “I was the NATO Project Director of the multi-year Science for Peace and Security (SPS) project “Secure Implementation of Post-Quantum Cryptography” and was awarded the 2018 […]
The Race for Quantum Computing: U.K. Status Excellent discussion and tracking of the U.K. MoD quantum programme and related U.K. Government initiatives. The race for quantum computing is surely on. Qubit. Mapping the Race to Quantum Computing: The UK National Quantum Technologies Programme – The […]
Should Australia Mimic U.S. Quantum Computing and Advanced Technology Efforts? The CIA’s investment fund is stalking Australian tech startups and has opened a local office Excerpts and salient points ~ + … Mr Ferrari led the company’s investment in startups that focused on building artificial […]
Proposed: The China Technology Transfer Control Act of 2019. The U.S. Senate has introduced a new bill aimed at thwarting China’s intellectual property theft. The proposed legislation focusses on disruptive technologies. This includes quantum computing. Qubit. Excerpts and salient points ~ • The China Technology […]
U.S. Military Chief Pushes to Continue Disruptive Technology Investment. General Joseph Dunford is confident in the U.S. military’s ability to defend and deter adversaries. Recently, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made comment on future investments for the U.S. military. Artificial intelligence, directed […]
Disruptive Tech, Congressional Traditions In Clash of Old and New and It May Not End Well for the U.S. The New Revolution in Military Affairs. In 1898, a Polish banker and self-taught military expert named Jan Bloch published The Future of War, the culmination of […]
Cracking Encryption By Quantum Computers Causing Fear: What’s Being Done? The key takeaways for The Qubit Report, taken as excerpts, are here. The discussion is worth taking the time to review in entirety. “Technologists fear that a high-capacity quantum computer will be able […]
Should China be Considered as Having Already Taken the Quantum Leap? A three part series on quantum computing from National Defense periodical online was released this week. Part 2’s salient points: • “China’s leaders recognize the strategic potential of quantum science and technology to enhance […]
Basic Quantum 101 and What the U.S. Is Doing with It. Or Isn’t… Doing with It. A three part series on quantum computing from National Defense periodical online was released this week. Part 1’s salient points as found by The Qubit Report: “Quantum computing, quantum […]
U.S. Army to Leverage Quantum Sensing’s “Nonintuitive Properties.” Entanglement, wave-particle duality, superposition: These properties are key to quantum sensing. And the U.S. Army intends to leverage these properties for national defense applications. “Quantum sensing uses some nonintuitive properties of nature to measure things like time, […]
DARPA Announces Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Devices. “DARPA’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program will pursue a hybrid concept that combines intermediate-sized quantum devices with classical systems to solve challenging optimization problems.” (Image Credit: DARPA) (DARPA) Universal quantum computers with millions of […]
Chinese Military Developing Strategic Doctrine Pulling in Quantum Computing. Hyper-sonic missiles, quantum key distribution, and legions of trained foot-soldiers may be sufficient to describe the old and new of China’s military might. With the era of disruptive technology taking off, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, and […]
Single Photon Emitters; Now on Silicon. “Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have developed a way to directly write quantum light sources, which emit a single photon of light at a time, into monolayer semiconductors such […]
Thales Teams with the Royal Navy. Thales and the University of Southhampton have entered into partnership for benefit of the Royal Navy. Previous commitments between the industry leader and the university entailed quantum navigation technology. This new agreement’s first project will research development of quantum technology, […]
Quantum Computing Compound Annual Growth Rate: 25% We are in the midst of a U.S. and China “Quantum Computing Arms Race.” One that will result in groundbreaking computing power, enabling disruptive new technologies. Quantum computers “will have the potential to change long-held dynamics in commerce, […]
U.S. Army Seeking Quantum-assured Position, Navigation, Timing… But… A recent report on U.S. Army modernization has been released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The preponderance of technologies listed are near-term; now through 2026. However, quantum-assured PNT is not in the near-term. It rears its […]
Modernizing Militaries to Secure Against Quantum Computing. “Advances in quantum computing by our adversaries may threaten our comparative advantage in encryption/decryption of electronic information.” Recent advances in quantum computing throughout the globe threaten perceived U.S. advantage in encryption and decryption of data. Unless the U.S. […]
India’s Road-map to a Quantum Computer. India’s Department of Science and Technology is developing the nation’s first quantum computer. The program, Quantum-Enabled Science & Technology (QuEST), is set to invest $11.3M to build a quantum computer and to fund related research. Once this initial phase is […]
In Case You Missed It! U.S. to Pump $1.275B into Quantum Computing. U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act became law December 21st. And with passage, ear-marking nearly $1.3B for U.S. Government agencies develop quantum information science and derivatives. Reference is found at NationalDEFENSE…
U.S. DoD Awards $500K for Quantum Market Research. U.S. DoD Awards $500K for market research on current and future quantum capabilities. The project is intended “to show how current and future threat capabilities can be enhanced or materialized through next generation quantum technologies.” Reference […]
U.S. DoD Awards $500K for Quantum Market Research. U.S. DoD Awards $500K for market research on current and future quantum capabilities. The project is intended “to show how current and future threat capabilities can be enhanced or materialized through next generation quantum technologies.” Reference […]