The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), in collaboration with the NSF-funded Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), has published its comprehensive Quantum Networking Applications Roadmap. Built on technical input from over 50 experts across national laboratories, academic research centers, and commercial firms—including IonQ, L3Harris, Aliro Quantum, Qunnect, Argonne, and NIST—the report establishes a systematic gap-analysis framework mapping 10 high-impact commercial use cases against primary hardware performance metrics and component technology readiness levels. The report reveals that today’s quantum networking capabilities support only two of the ten assessed applications: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and point-to-point Distributed Quantum Sensing (DQS). Even then, present deployments [...]

Four commercial quantum companies—Infleqtion, Aliro Technologies, Tensora, and Bandelier Technologies—have officially signed on to leverage ABQ-Net, the first open-access,…

QED-C’s new roadmap identifies quantum networking applications and technologies needed to scale future quantum networks.