DARPA and the State of Maryland have established a cooperative effort, the Capital Quantum Benchmarking Hub, to test and evaluate quantum computing prototypes and systems for national security and commercial applications.
The Capital Quantum Benchmarking Hub is part of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), which aims to verify and validate which, if any, quantum computing approach can achieve an industrially useful quantum computer by 2033. The Capital Quantum Benchmarking Hub will be based in the University of Maryland’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), a university-affiliated research center.
The effort will help inform DARPA’s benchmarking efforts by providing unbiased assessments of participating commercial companies.