Government & Defense - Quantum Technology, Quantum Computing, Quantum Security Articles
August 30, 2024
Quantum Technology Use Cases in Government & Defense
Quantum computing is on the cusp of reshaping government and defense, much as radar or the internet did in earlier eras. It promises enhancements across the board – unbreakable communications, unprecedented computing power for logistics and AI, new sensors that reveal hidden threats, and simulations that accelerate innovation. It also carries profound disruptive potential, especially for cybersecurity, meaning it can just as easily undermine a nation that is unprepared ...
Clients Kept Asking Us to Train Their Teams, So I Started Quantum Academy
Applied Quantum has delivered hundreds of hours of private training, from board briefings to hands-on technical work. Quantum Academy moves that teaching into a separate company, with practitioner instructors, proctored exams and a flagship program for Chief Quantum Officers ...
NATO’s First Quantum Roadmap: Sea Trials, a PQC Pilot and No Public Date for Its Own PQC Migration
Allies approved NATO's first quantum technology roadmap in July. Its public summary dates sensor trials, standards work and a cryptography pilot. A separate procurement notice estimates the pilot at €8 million and adds a before-2030 goal ...
Infleqtion Hits 30 Logical Qubits With Error Detection. Its Original 2026 Target Called for Error Correction.
Infleqtion met its 2026 goal of 30 logical qubits on Sqale with eight-atom blocks that detect errors and discard failed runs. The goal it replaced in 2025 called for error correction ...
Microsoft and Qolab Propose Four Conditions for a Scalable Logical Qubit. DOE’s $215 Million Competition Leaves Its Test to Negotiation.
Troyer, Nayak and Martinis want the word scalable reserved for logical qubits kept alive by repeated error correction and real-time decoding. I checked ten studies and announcements since April 2024 against their conditions and DOE's new competition rules ...
FIPS 140-2 Goes Historical Today – What Actually Changes and What Doesn’t
Every remaining FIPS 140-2 certificate moves to the CMVP Historical list on September 21, 2026. The sunset changes procurement, not operations – but the supply-side gap in FIPS 140-3 validated modules makes the transition harder than the seven-year runway implied ...
Europe’s Chips Act 2.0 Keeps Quantum Pilot Lines but Leaves Quantum Fabrication Out of Its Strategic-Project Priorities
The European Quantum Industry Consortium says the Chips Act 2.0 proposal names quantum foundries without an instrument to build one. I checked its reading of the annexes and set it against what the US government funded in September ...
DOE’s $215 Million Q Competition Puts a Price Tag on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing – and a Deadline
The DOE's Quantum Genesis Q Competition offers up to $215 million for fault-tolerant quantum computers with at least 100 logical qubits – not physical qubits – by September 2028, paid through milestone payments and equal-split incentive pools ...
Washington Took Its Quantum Stakes Up Front and Tied the Cash to Milestones
Commerce finalized equity-linked CHIPS awards with D-Wave, Rigetti, Quantinuum and PsiQuantum on September 8. The public filings show shares issued for each full award at signing, about half the money available up front, and the rest tied to milestones ...
Altera Ships ML-DSA Secure Boot on Agilex FPGAs – PQC Reaches the Silicon Root of Trust
Altera began shipping ML-DSA secure boot on its Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGAs on September 8, 2026 – the first general-purpose FPGA family with post-quantum firmware authentication as a production feature, not a roadmap item ...
The Netherlands Publishes a Cryptography Policy Framework for Central Government
The Dutch central government's framework requires every ministry to inventory its cryptography, including each application's quantum security level, to impose the same rules on vendors, and to state how it will achieve crypto agility ...
