New possibilities in quantum-enhanced C4ISR to change the future
Lockheed Martin and Q-CTRL have been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype a quantum-enabled Inertial Navigation System (INS) for GPS-denied environments. This innovative technology has the potential to revolutionize navigation capabilities for warfighters, providing precise location measurements even in environments without access to GPS.
The defense and aerospace industries require advanced computing, navigation, and surveillance technologies to maintain an advantage on the battlefield. Quantum technology can deliver a strategic edge to every aspect of modern defense, now and into the future.
Q-CTRL is the global leader in delivering real-world outcomes to transform defense missions.
Quantum sensing is rapidly becoming a mission-critical technology for surveillance and reconnaissance, enabling capabilities far beyond the limits of classical systems. With quantum sensors you can navigate without GPS, detect underground hardened structures, submarines, or hidden weapons systems, and survey the entire earth.
Our solutions actively advance a broad range of defense applications, empowering mission success in the most challenging operational domains.
And we’ve achieved what no one else has before. We have unlocked true quantum advantage in GPS-denied environments—delivering the first real-world benefits from quantum sensing.
Contact us about dark drone detection, magnetic anomaly detection and mapping, and underground target detection.
50X
Quantum Advantage over classical INS
< 0.03%
Uncertainty of distance travelled over hours of flight
20X
enhanced resilience on moving platforms
Advanced computing technology is essential to maintaining a battlefield advantage.
Quantum computing promises revolutionary capabilities across the defense sector, with the power to crack encrypted messages, solve critical materials-science problems, or unlock the key to ultra-high-performance aviation fuels.
We deliver the most advanced quantum infrastructure software and edtech tools to make quantum computing useful for the defense sector.
We have proven defense use cases like contested Army logistics, optimized manufacturing supply chains for defense technology, and dramatically improved the performance and utility of quantum computers so anyone can gain true strategic advantages in the real world.
Q-CTRL has demonstrated that quantum computing can deliver on defense use cases like contested Army logistics, and optimized manufacturing supply chains for defense technology. A wide variety of other applications in materials science, chemistry, and machine learning are being explored and can be enabled by Q-CTRL’s performance management infrastructure software, Fire Opal.
Q-CTRL produces infrastructure software for quantum computing and full-stack quantum-assured navigation systems including its own quantum sensing hardware. Q-CTRL does not sell sensor components, but the Ironstone Opal quantum-assured navigation system is now available for presale.Contact the Q-CTRL team for further details.
Q-CTRL is the first and only company in the world to deliver field validation of quantum sensing technology for navigation. This includes real field trials on airborne, ground-based, and maritime platforms. Contact the Q-CTRL team for further details.
Q-CTRL is currently engaging select partners for additional field trails and system-integration demonstrations. Please contact the Q-CTRL team for further details.