
Advances in sensing and positioning accuracy via quantum computing are expected in the next decade to aid U.S. Air Force and other military services, but secure communications through quantum networks and a quantum Internet appear to be a longer-term effort. "The near term payoffs that we see in capabilities that will be delivered will really be in the timing and sensing piece," Michael Hayduk, the deputy director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y., said…