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The Trump Administration is committed to U.S. leadership in quantum technology and ushering in the next frontier of quantum innovation.
Yesterday, ARPA-E Director Conner Prochaska joined a discussion on the policy and national security implications of quantum computing, networking, and sensing at 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂’𝒔 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆.
In support of President Trump’s Executive Order 14413, ARPA-E is advancing quantum algorithms for complex energy challenges where classical computing methods fall short—helping harness quantum computing for transformative scientific applications and putting emerging technologies to work on real-world problems that can strengthen America’s energy and national security.
Maintaining U.S. leadership in quantum means developing not only the technology, but also the applications that can deliver value for the American people.
Quantum networking is emerging as a critical defense against AI and quantum threats before a single quantum computer is even connected.
The Qunnect leadership team shared the latest research on security applications for quantum networking that cannot be replicated by digital networks at Quantum World Congress.
Our CEO Noel Goddard walked the room through what quantum networking is already doing today, capabilities most people don't associate with the field yet. Our Chief Scientist and Co-founder Mehdi Namazi updated the conference on Qunnect's latest security use cases developed with government and industry partners. And our CTO Mael Flament gave Qunnect's assessment on quantum networking's growing importance in providing assurance of security against emerging threats.
To cap it off, last night we brought together policymakers, industry experts, and more, for a deeper conversation on what it takes for the U.S. to lead in quantum infrastructure.
#qwc2026#quantumworldcongress
For decades, digital trust assumed that a password proves the right person has access, that a network route could not be diverted, and that a human could spot an impersonator.
Today, AI and quantum are eroding trust in all three of those assumptions at once.
In its newest white paper, Qunnect shows how entanglement can protect against today’s greatest AI and quantum security vulnerabilities.
The work behind it is already being supported through partnerships with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), IQT, the Air Force Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
What assumption in your own security stack would you want physically verified instead of just trusted?
Read the white paper: https://lnkd.in/eE-P-HQu
This is a big one for us: https://lnkd.in/gBQYAHmD
I recently wrote about why quantum networks go far #BeyondQKD (https://lnkd.in/p/gChbddYv). They can introduce entirely new trust primitives, including the ability to verify where a digital event actually occurred.
Today, location on a network is usually inferred from IP addresses, GPS, device metadata or network logs. Useful, yes. Proof, no. All of them can be spoofed or manipulated.
In new work between Qunnect and JPMorganChase's Global Technology Applied Research team, we introduce and demonstrate a loss-tolerant Quantum Position Verification (QPV) protocol designed for metropolitan networks.
In simple terms, it is a way to create a "space-time seal": a verifiable certificate that a digital event occurred at an approved particular place and time, backed by physics rather than self-reported metadata.
Using commercially available hardware and standard telecom infrastructure, we:
* Certified the position of an untrusted prover
* Completed verification in ~20 minutes of net data collection
* Demonstrated security independent of quantum-channel loss under the protocol's threat model
* Established finite-size security guarantees against adversaries
* Identified a realistic path to sub-second certification using upgraded hardware
The QPV protocol and architecture are unique and lean: only one verifier needs quantum capabilities. The rest can use classical infrastructure. This creates a credible path toward metro-scale networks where a small number of quantum nodes support location verification across a much larger area. Think Lower Manhattan.
The application space is significant: data residency, sovereign cloud access, confidential computing, financial transactions, export controls and regulatory filings.
Working together in NYC/Brooklyn JPM brought its expertise in cryptography, security and real financial use-cases. Qunnect brought the state-of-the-art entanglement hardware and our Carina quantum networking platform needed to take a quantum protocol like QPV off the page and run it in real life.
Huge credit to everyone who made this work possible: Kon Wen Yu, Niccolò Bigagli, Andrew Conrad, Taylor Shields, Fatih Kaleoglu, Ignatius William Primaatmaja, Alexander Craddock, RJ Pisani, Jude Seeber, Omar Amer, Charles Lim, Xinhua (Frank) Ling, PhD, CISSP, Kaushik Chakraborty, ... and, of course, Mehdi Namazi and Noel Goddard.
This is what #BeyondQKD means: not only protecting information, but adding a physical trust layer capable of proving who, when, and where.
The next step is to deliver this capability at scale and over shared infrastructure: Entanglement As a Service. This is where a new era in cybersecurity begins.
#QuantumNetworking#QuantumSecurity#QuantumPositionVerification#Cybersecurity
AI can clone a voice well enough to fool your bank. But it can't fake a location that's been verified with entangled photons.
Scientists recently used entanglement to confirm a caller's real position with no way to spoof it, a capability regular networks can't offer.
That's a real, working answer to a question everyone in quantum keeps asking.
Can this actually do something a classical system can't?
Our CEO Noel Goddard is covering this and more at Quantum World Congress, alongside Co-Founder Mael Flament and Mehdi Namazi, September 23 at 10:15 in the Jim Henson Room.
What would you want verified before you trusted a call was real?
Register now: https://lnkd.in/gXz6surv
Position verification. Channel protection. Quantum authentication.
Entanglement has the potential to enable all of it.
Our CEO, Noel Goddard, leads a Quantum World Congress workshop with Qunnect's co-founders, Mael Flament and Mehdi Namazi at the University of Maryland on September 23, covering the security applications most people have never heard of. Join us in the Jim Henson Room at 10:15!
What would you want to understand about quantum networking?
Join us at Quantum World Congress for more.
Government agencies have until 2030 to migrate to post-quantum cryptography to address emerging quantum and AI threats to encryption. Our CEO Noel Goddard says it's a temporary fix.
Cracks are already showing in those same algorithms. And soon, these threats will expose the same weakness across our security: too much digital trust depends on credentials and software an attacker can eventually defeat.
Quantum networking closes that gap using physics instead of math — verifying devices, locations, and communication links directly.
Entanglement has uses that can become critical to the energy, financial, quantum and national security industries.
How can you use entanglement for your industry?
Watch Noel explain more 👇
Hear more from Qunnect next week at Quantum World Congress 2026 at our work show "Use Cases for Entanglement Distribution" at 10:15 on September 23rd in the Jim Henson Room. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gk9t7MBN
Seven years at Sandia. A quantum workforce program she co-founded. And now she's running the nation's first open-access entanglement-based quantum network.
This week, we're welcoming Megan Ivory, who's joining Qunnect as Director of ABQ-Net and Albuquerque site lead.
Megan comes straight from Sandia National Laboratory, where she helped build the region's quantum technician training program.
She helped train Albuquerque’s quantum workforce. Now she’ll lead the network giving that talent a place to put its skills to work.
Welcome to Qunnect, Megan!
