Posted on 07/16/2018 4:46:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Top Pentagon official Michael Griffin sat down a few weeks ago with Air Force scientists at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to discuss the future of quantum computing in the U.S. military. Griffin, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, has listed quantum computers and related applications among the Pentagon's must-do R&D investments.
Quantum computing is one area where the Pentagon worries that it is playing catchup while China continues to leap ahead. The technology is being developed for many civilian applications, and the military sees it as potentially game-changing for information and space warfare.
The U.S. Air Force particularly is focused on what is known as quantum information science.
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Artificial-intelligence algorithms, highly secure encryption for communications satellites and accurate navigation that does not require GPS signals are some of the most coveted capabilities that would be aided by quantum computing.
Hayduk spoke last week during a meeting of the Defense Innovation Board, a panel of tech executives and scientists who advise the secretary of defense. The DIB met at the Pentagon's Silicon Valley location, the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental.
Quantum computers are the newest generation of supercomputers — powerful machines with a new approach to processing information. Quantum information science is the application of the laws of quantum mechanics to information science, Hayduk explained. Unlike traditional computers that are made of bits of zero or one, in quantum computers bits can have both values simultaneously, giving them unprecedented processing power.
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Actually, I’d think it’d be more important to carry those things they use to break open windows in cars.
You could use it on your adversary’s face visor.
Reminds me of “Thunderball”, sans aqua.
A super computer needed huh? Okay, I say bring back the mighty ‘W.O.P.R.’ to have a go at the problem! (Or maybe the HAL 9000!)
WOTAN.
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