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Monarch Quantum congratulated Infleqtion on a $20 million NASA follow-on contract for the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder. Monarch Quantum supplies integrated photonics hardware for the mission's sensor.

Monarch Quantum is supplying integrated photonics hardware for the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder, a NASA mission led by JPL that received a $20 million follow-on contract. The mission is expected to launch in 2030.

UK Research and Innovation is backing British businesses developing quantum technologies with a share of £50 million through its Quantum Technologies Priority Programme. Projects include a quantum railway monitoring system and a handheld quantum eye scanner.

Quantum effects already underpin everyday devices such as transistors, lasers and MRI scanners, yet their full potential remains untapped. Researchers are engineering two-dimensional materials and quantum spin liquids to serve as building blocks for topological quantum computing and more stable qubits, combining theoretical modelling with material fabrication. Other efforts use quantum sensors to probe dark matter and read superconducting qubit data without disturbing it.

IonQ and the University of Cambridge have opened the first-ever university-based IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre at the Ray Dolby Centre, home of the Cavendish Laboratory. The Centre includes nine inaugural research projects.

Dirac Labs, a Madison-based quantum-enabled navigation company, has joined the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium as an industry affiliate, providing resilient navigation alternatives to enable autonomous maritime missions.