IonQ announced its intent to acquire Vector Atomic and completed the Oxford Ionics acquisition on September 17, 2025. These moves enhance IonQ’s quantum technology portfolio, integrating sensing, computing, and networking. Vector Atomic adds PNT expertise, while Oxford Ionics boosts scalable quantum systems. The deals solidify IonQ’s leadership in the quantum industry.
EPB Quantum℠ strengthens its team with three new experts to drive quantum technology development. The initiative, based in Chattanooga, offers the nation’s first commercial quantum network and computing access. This expansion supports real-world applications, fostering collaboration across industries and academia.
IonQ has expanded its quantum networking patent portfolio to nearly 400 patents through acquisitions and strategic development. With contracts from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and ARLIS, IonQ demonstrates strong momentum in quantum communication. The EPB Quantum Network and the ID Quantique partnership highlight IonQ’s leadership in secure, large-scale quantum solutions.
ORNL researchers teamed with EPB and UTC to transmit an entangled quantum signal. Their approach stabilizes photon polarization using reference lasers for nonstop uptime. EPB sees this as another path to secure networks on a commercial scale.
IonQ has delivered its first quantum computer, IonQ Forte Enterprise, to the European Innovation Center in Arlesheim, Switzerland. Operating at a record algorithmic qubit count of #AQ36, the system enhances computational capabilities and marks IonQ’s initial commercial quantum system in Switzerland. The partnership with QuantumBasel strengthens IonQ’s global data center presence and supports advanced research and commercial applications.
IonQ achieved remote ion-ion entanglement between qubits in separate ion traps, advancing efforts toward scalable quantum systems. The development is a key step in IonQ’s strategy to implement photonic interconnects for quantum networking.
An on-chip femtosecond pulse source would unlock new applications in quantum and optical computing, astronomy, optical communications and beyond. However, it’s been a challenge to integrate tunable and highly efficient pulsed lasers onto chips.
Recent developments in the field of quantum information science (QIS) have the potential to drive American innovation across multiple sectors.
Quantum Information Science and Technology, which includes quantum computing, networking, sensing, and metrology, leverages the fundamental properties of matter to generate new information technologies. For example, quantum computers can, in principle, use the unique properties of atoms and photons to solve certain types of problems exponentially faster than a conventional computer can. Over many decades, harnessing quantum aspects of nature has produced critical technologies.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have devised a unique means of achieving effective gate operation with a form of information processing called electromagnonics. Their pivotal discovery allows real-time control of information transfer between microwave photons and magnons. And it could result in a new generation of classical electronic and quantum signal devices that can be used in various applications such as signal switching, low-power computing and quantum networking.
