Innovate UK to invest up to £14.3M in quantum sensing & PNT projects
Innovate UK, the UK innovation agency, will invest up to £14.3 million in quantum sensing and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) projects. The funding is intended to support development of quantum-enabled sensors and clocks for resilience where satellite navigation is unreliable or unavailable. No specific recipient companies were named in the announcement.
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What this could mean
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This funding could move at least one UK quantum PNT system from laboratory demonstration to field-trial readiness within two years, giving a credible backup to GNSS in critical infrastructure.
The UK already has research prototypes in quantum accelerometry and compact atomic clocks at institutions such as NPL and Dstl. A £14.3M grant is enough to fund the engineering work—miniaturisation, thermal control, and laser integration—needed to take one of those prototypes into a real-world field trial.
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