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IonQ's strategic partnership with Sandia National Laboratories formalizes a critical public-private alliance aimed at accelerating utility-scale quantum computing for national security applications. By leveraging Sandia's fabrication expertise in ion traps and its Quantum Demonstration Facility, the collaboration focuses on co-designing hardware to overcome scaling challenges essential for government missions. This move underscores the industry shift toward integrating specialized research labs with commercial providers to advance reliable quantum systems before they reach broader deployment.
IonQ and Sandia team up to build quantum computers for US security

IonQ and Sandia National Laboratories signed an MOU to co-design quantum technologies for U.S. national security, building on Sandia’s fabrication of ion traps for IonQ’s early computers.
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and Sandia National Laboratories have formalized a collaboration with a memorandum of understanding, committing to jointly develop quantum technologies for U.S. national security. This partnership will advance quantum computing and networking capabilities at New Mexico’s Quantum Demonstration Facility, a hub for public-private innovation. “Big breakthroughs often happen when government and industry work together,” said IonQ…
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