Quantum
Applied quantum information science for national security, critical infrastructure and mission performance breakthroughs.
Harness quantum technologies for mission-critical operations today
Evolving mission demands and the rising sophistication of adversarial threats across all domains require data processing, computations and simulations at unprecedented speed, accuracy and scale. Government and defense organizations can leverage quantum algorithms and computing hardware to generate transformative mission impact across a wide range of use cases now. SAIC’s expertise and solutions span the domains of quantum information science.
Enhancing mission performance with the power of quantum
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Quantum Computing
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
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Quantum Sensing
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Quantum Networking
Quantum computing supports missions with game-changing capabilities in domain awareness, mission command and control, and threat detection and modeling.
SAIC’s offers unmatched quantum algorithms running on classical compute, quantum simulators or quantum gate computing.
Quantum Computing
Ensuring government organizations are positioned starting immediately for CNSA 2.0, including crypto inventory, quantum resilience through AES256 and related algorithms, and quantum resistance with lattice and related cryptography and digital algorithms.
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Significantly higher precision and accuracy in detecting motion, time, and environmental changes—without relying on GPS or traditional signals.
Enables stealth detection, enhanced navigation in denied environments, and early threat awareness strengthening operational advantage in complex, contested domains.
Quantum Sensing
Enables secure intelligence integration, resilient C2 systems and defense networks engineered to evolve with tomorrow’s threats.
Complementary with PQC to definitively and irrevocably protect data at rest and in motion.
Quantum Networking
Quantum-Powered Mission Solutions
From complex command and control and counterterrorism operations to radio signal decoding and geophysical intelligence, quantum is accelerating and increasing the precision of defense and civilian missions.
Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT)
Quantum-powered atomic clocks deliver precise timing and navigation—even when GPS is jammed or unavailable. This ensures mission-critical operations stay on course in the most challenging environments.
Missile Defense
SAIC can revolutionize missile defense situational awareness and response with quantum-powered analytics, ultra-precise detection, tracking and interception modeling.
Space Domain Awareness
Advanced quantum science delivers deeper insight into orbital behavior and tracking—boosting situational awareness and safeguarding mission-critical space infrastructure.
Quantum RF and Sensing
Full broadband transmit and receive, passive image detection, underground detection, and quantum radar at all echelons and in all warfighting domains.
SAIC partners with the world's largest full spectrum commercial quantum technology company. Infleqtion’s low-noise and low-decoherence atom-based quantum products provide orders of magnitude improvement in sensing and computing applications.
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Hypersonic Missile Threat Detection and Response
An existential threat to national security, forward-deployed forces, defense assets and critical infrastructure, a hypersonic missile launch presents a time-bound problem, allowing only seconds to detect and act. Human-based workflows cannot meet this time horizon. SAIC’s quantum algorithms simulated on a classical computer can generate a 100 to 1,000 times computational performance boost. A particular detector and quantum algorithm approach can instantaneously, with high assurance, detect hypersonic launches and tracking much more effectively than traditional methods.
Situational Understanding
Courses of Action
Human-Machine Teaming
Space Debris Tracking
Space debris threatens the safety and sustainability of space operations. The expanding volume of space debris traveling at extremely high speeds makes tracking the debris and avoiding collisions with critical infrastructure increasingly difficult.
Quantum algorithms can protect mission-critical space assets with greater speed and precision that improves resilience and enables uninterrupted orbit and operations. Across all metrics, SAIC’s solution significantly improves data processing, actionability of information, collision probability, positional accuracy, satellite fuel efficiency and propagation accuracy.
Detection Accuracy:
Less than 1 meter
Orbital Velocity Accuracy:
0.1 m/s
Prediction Horizon:
From days and weeks,
to less than 1 day
Fuel Savings:
30% to 50%
Featured Solutions
Decidable awareness and C2 mission planning over traditional algorithms at the speed of the mission
Removes exponential degradation in computational performance when dealing with increased number of assets – unmanned aerial systems, cruise missiles, hypersonics, decoys, and ICBM missiles.
Situational Understanding
Precise tracking and intercept modeling identifies assets at greatest risk
Rapidly generates courses of action for human operators
Courses of Action
Automates analysis and workflows
Accelerates human decision time by 30x
Improves reaction time through increased what-if analysis volume and precision
Human-Machine Teaming
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Meet the Expert
Dr. Chris Powell
Quantum Information Science Lead at SAIC
Fraud, Waste and Abuse
Enhance compliance frameworks and transform detection capabilities by identifying patterns invisible to classical systems, providing unprecedented transparency and accountability in financial and operational data. Organizations can bolster risk mitigation while building the foundation for full quantum adoption.
Quantum Readiness Assessments
Our Quantum Readiness Assessments help organizations evaluate their current posture and plan a practical roadmap for adopting quantum capabilities as part of an Enterprise IT (EIT) transformation.
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Identify vulnerable cryptographic assets, assess resilience to “harvest-now, decrypt-later” threats, and plan migration to the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (CNSA) 2.0.
Quantum Sensing
Evaluate the potential of quantum sensors—such as atomic clocks, magnetometers, and interferometers—for enhanced positioning, communications, radar, and debris tracking.
Quantum Computing
Assess algorithms and computing strategies across classical, quantum, and hybrid architectures to identify near-term mission applications.
Quantum Networking
Explore quantum entanglement and sensing approaches to achieve immutable data security and advance toward quantum network architectures.
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