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armasuisse

armasuisse is the Swiss federal defence procurement agency (Bundesamt für Rüstung armasuisse), part of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, responsible for buying and managing materiel for the Swiss Armed Forces. Its Science and Technology arm carries out technology assessment for the military, including work on emerging quantum technologies such as quantum sensing and the implications of quantum computing for cryptography and secure communications. It is a government office rather than a commercial quantum hardware or software vendor, so its role in the field is that of a state customer, funder and evaluator of quantum technology rather than a developer of quantum processors.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 11 September 2026

Headquarters
Bern, Switzerland
Status
Private
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IBM, Lockheed Martin Announce Swiss Quantum Innovation Hub at ETH Zurich, Anchored by Switzerland's First IBM Quantum Computer

IBM will install a Quantum System Two, its latest superconducting system with the Nighthawk processor, at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre by the end of 2026. The installation is part of a defence-offset agreement with armasuisse and anchors a new innovation hub at ETH Zurich run with Lockheed Martin. The partners plan joint research in quantum sensing, additive manufacturing, and AI-adjacent algorithms.

OutlookPlausible

The Zurich hub could become an operational testbed where Lockheed Martin and Swiss researchers run defence-relevant quantum sensing and additive-manufacturing algorithms on IBM's Nighthawk processor without moving data or hardware across US export boundaries.

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