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Lockheed Martin

LMT

Lockheed Martin is a US defense and aerospace contractor whose quantum computing work has centered on quantum annealing rather than gate-based machines; it was an early commercial customer of D-Wave, acquiring a D-Wave One system in 2011 and using it for verification and validation of complex software and for optimization problems in aerospace design. The company's quantum activity sits inside a much larger business of aircraft, missiles, satellites and IT services, and its venture arm has made minority investments in quantum hardware and software startups. It is not a quantum computer manufacturer.

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

Headquarters
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Founded
1995
Status
Public
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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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