{"id":218659,"date":"2025-07-24T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/pacific-northwest-tech-pioneers-team-up-in-quantum-realms-and-on-the-space-frontier"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:10:07","slug":"pacific-northwest-tech-pioneers-team-up-in-quantum-realms-and-on-the-space-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/pacific-northwest-tech-pioneers-team-up-in-quantum-realms-and-on-the-space-frontier","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Northwest tech pioneers team up in quantum realms and on the space frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pacific-northwest-tech-pioneers-team-up-in-quantum-realms-and-on-the-space-frontier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2014 Quantum physics and outer space may seem as different as two tech frontiers can be, but the challenges facing Pacific Northwest ventures that are aiming to make their fortune on those frontiers are surprisingly similar.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the current turbulence on the national political scene, it\u2019s getting harder to capture the attention \u2014 and gain the support \u2014 of the federal government, which has historically been the leading funder of research and development. And that means it\u2019s more important than ever for researchers, industry leaders and local officials to join forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink of it as a triad,\u201d said Jason Yager, executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpqa.org\/\">Montana Photonics and Quantum Alliance<\/a>, which is one of the beneficiaries of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpqa.org\/montana-receives-41-million-to-advance-smart-sensing-industry\/\">$41 million Tech Hub grant<\/a> awarded by the federal government a year ago. \u201cIf all of these pieces are working together, then where they meet is socio-economic growth, and then you\u2019re ready to bring in the additional funding to launch that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2014 Quantum physics and outer space may seem as different as two tech frontiers can be, but the challenges facing Pacific Northwest ventures that are aiming to make their fortune on those frontiers are surprisingly similar. Amid the current turbulence on the national political scene, it\u2019s getting harder to capture the attention \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}