Lockheed Martin says new quantum hub will accelerate defense-ready technologies for navigation, sensing and communications

Lockheed Martin has opened a quantum technology hub intended to shorten the path from laboratory research to defense-ready capabilities in navigation, sensing, communications, and advanced computing. The initiative will bring researchers and mission engineers together to test applications such as positioning without GPS, highly sensitive detection, secure information exchange, and optimization of complex defense problems. The announcement establishes a development environment rather than a fielded military program, and it includes no disclosed customer contract, deployment date, or performance threshold for the technologies currently being pursued.