$35 Million Awarded to 15 Small Businesses During Virtual Quantum Collider 2.0 held in Rome, N.Y. Rome, NY – The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate announced 23 awards to 15 small businesses, totaling $35 million in U.S. Air Force…

On July 23rd, 2020 the DOE announced the selection of Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) as the first DOE Quantum Center to pursue the development of a quantum internet. This $125m five-year Quantum Center Program is the first  of at least…

ROSH HA’AYIN, Israel, June 29, 2020 — Raicol Crystals, manufacturer of nonlinear crystals for space, aviation, and pharmaceutical applications, and Qubitekk, a manufacturer of products for quantum networks and quantum key distribution, have been awarded a grant for a joint project. Read…

March 5th 2020 Chattanooga, TN The Chattanooga utility that started the first Gig internet service in the Western Hemisphere using its fiber optic network is now using that same fiber backbone to pioneer a new method of cyber security that…

Chicago, February 19, 2020 Real-world experiment in Chicago suburbs achieves quantum entanglement across 52-mile fiber network Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago entangled photons across a 52-mile network in the Chicago suburbs, an important step in developing a…

President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation ramping up quantum computing research and development. This is an important step for the US to catch up with the Chinese, who rumored to be spending $2 billion per year on quantum science. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/12/thune-and-nelson-applaud-senate-passage-of-the-national-quantum-initiative-act

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/technology/quantum-encryption.html

The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced awards of up to US$28 million to support the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of next-generation tools and technologies to improve the cybersecurity and resilience of the nation’s critical energy infrastructure https://www.tdworld.com/smart-grid/doe-invests-28-million-advance-cybersecurity-us-energy-infrastructure/…

The darknet system could be made more secure with the introduction of quantum communications technology, said Duncan Earl, president and chief technology officer at Qubitekk, Inc. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/darknet-and-quantum-communications-could-enhance-grid-cybersecurity-scie/508357/  

A country with professional computer programmers and access to intelligence gathering capabilities has great potential for affecting global security as nuclear weapons did 50 years ago, Dr. Duncan Earl, Chief Technology Officer of Qubitekk Inc. told RT.

Fully functioning quantum computers don’t exist yet, but a lot of really smart scientists think they soon will. A two-year-old startup’s 12 employees spend their days trying to figure out what to do if the bad guys get there first.