The three main priorities of the project include a competition to develop systems, a supercomputing facility for engineers and targeted research to advance scientific use cases.

And, the FAR overhaul heads to a formal rulemaking process

Adam Clater | Chief Architect, Civilian Agencies | Red Hat

"For the first time in history, the civilian government, we have a comprehensive inventory of our asymmetric cryptography across all the agencies and their critical systems," said…

CIO Ann Dunkin said DOE is looking to innovate quantum technologies through both internal and external R&D.

The agency says it has awarded 22 separate grants as part of the new investment to institutions researching projects including physics, computer sciences, materials research, engineering and…

The selected research initiatives will investigate the limitations of currently available quantum processors.

Federal agencies are supposed to be preparing for quantum hacking. Their progress is unclear.

The legislation will require the Office of Management and Budget to prioritize federal agencies’ acquisition of and migration to IT systems with post-quantum cryptography.