Virtual Event | Advancing America’s Quantum Leadership with Next-Generation Sensors

As the most mature quantum technology today, quantum sensing provides the United States with a strategic opportunity to gain significant security and economic advantages while bolstering its leadership in the global quantum race. These sensors can provide reliable navigation and timing capabilities even under GPS jamming and spoofing, disruptions that already affect military missions and thousands of commercial flights daily. Quantum sensors also promise to deliver ultraprecise synchronization spanning missile‐defense platforms, financial transactions, and 6G networks, enable the detection of adversarial assets and mineral deposits, and even power microchip security inspections and portable biomedical diagnostics.

But considerable challenges persist, from insufficient public and private investments to fragile supply chains. Meanwhile, countries like the People’s Republic of China benefit from substantial state-led funding and superior manufacturing capacity that threaten to outpace U.S. efforts.

Join the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) on Wednesday, August 27, from 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET for a hybrid public event exploring quantum sensors’ transformative potential across defense and commercial sectors. The panelists will discuss existing bottlenecks, the policy levers needed to accelerate U.S. development and adoption, as well as how early successes in sensing can catalyze advances in quantum supply chains and computing—sharpening America’s global quantum edge.

This event marks the release of a major new CNAS report, Atomic Advantage: Accelerating U.S. Quantum Sensing for Next-Generation Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, by CNAS Technology and National Security Program Fellow Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante.

Live viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions during the event.

Featuring:

John Burke
Chief of Product, Beacon Photonics
Former DoD Principal Director for Quantum

Jamil Abo-Shaeer
CEO, Vector Atomic
Member, White House’s National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee

Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante
Fellow, Technology and National Security Program
Center for a New American Security

Moderated by:

Bonnie Marlow
Principal Physicist and Quantum Sensors Group Leader
MITRE

For registration questions, contact Jasmine Butler at [email protected]. For media inquiries, contact Charles Horn at [email protected].