U.S. DOD Open to Suggestion on Confronting Many Unknowns in Quantum Information Science

…The Defense Department has been pursuing QIS-aligned initiatives since at least the early 1990s…

…The Pentagon currently has a “little bias towards” photonic systems… DOD is still “figuring things out like what is the layout of these, and how would you use a small number of qubits effectively?”

…Questions also remain around associated topics like thermal management to keep such systems cool, interconnecting complex networks, fabricating and scaling the many intricate system components — and more…

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