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Quandela Selected for Stage A of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

Photonic quantum hardware developer Quandela has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to participate in Stage A of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). The program expands on federal efforts to separate hype from technical reality by auditing whether candidate quantum computing architectures can achieve true “utility-scale” operation—defined as systems whose absolute computational value exceeds their operational cost—by 2033. Under the initial six-month Stage A plausibility phase, Quandela will deliver a comprehensive system concept report detailing the near-term engineering feasibility of its fault-tolerant hardware baseline to government test and evaluation teams.