Defense and aerospace

In environments where GPS is compromised—be it due to jamming, spoofing, or environmental constraints, existing solutions just aren’t sufficient to secure critical crewed and uncrewed missions. Q-CTRL's Ironstone Opal delivers unjammable, unspoofable, and high-accuracy positioning to crewed and autonomous vehicles that operates independently of satellite systems. Field trials have demonstrated Ironstone Opal's superior performance, achieving up to 94X greater accuracy than traditional inertial navigation systems (INS) in both airborne and ground-based scenarios. 

Our customers in commercial aviation, defense, and the UAS sector trust its compact design, tight-SWaP, and standard interfaces to deliver quantum assurance in their most critical missions – all without compromising performance or stealth.

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The risk of attack from uncrewed systems is growing, with recent missions in Ukraine and Russia illustrating how significant the threat has become.  Existing counter-UAS systems fail in poor visibility and struggle to distinguish true risks from birds and other natural phenomena.

Our customers are deploying quantum magnetometers as an early warning system to clearly identify threats as early as possible. Functioning in environments where other systems fail, and complementing visual and radar-based technologies, quantum magnetometers are an emerging solution to protect critical assets from drone attacks

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In defense logistics, even small inefficiencies in routing or scheduling can result in mission delays, increased exposure, and wasted resources. Built to solve hard combinatorial problems, Fire Opal’s quantum-enhanced optimization solver empowers mission planners with faster, more effective decision-making that is validated to address real-world problems. 

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Our users can quickly and easily integrate new quantum solutions into the most challenging logistics optimization problems with a single line of code.  Preparing for quantum advantage in optimization is easy - Fire Opal provides an out-of-the-box solution powered by our proprietary AI-driven performance management, so anyone can adopt quantum NOW.  

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