{"id":25848,"date":"2016-05-18T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/u-s-navys-spawar-will-pay-d-wave-11-million-for-quantum-computer-training"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:48:47","slug":"u-s-navys-spawar-will-pay-d-wave-11-million-for-quantum-computer-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/u-s-navys-spawar-will-pay-d-wave-11-million-for-quantum-computer-training","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy\u2019s SPAWAR will pay D-Wave $11 million for quantum computer training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/D-Wave-2-780x473.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US Navy paying D-Wave to train them on QC.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A division of the U.S. Navy intends to pay Canadian company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/\">D-Wave<\/a> $11 million to learn how to use its quantum computing infrastructure, according to a federal filing posted online on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The unit seeking this training is the Navy\u2019s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, known as SPAWAR or SSC-PAC for short, which is headquartered in San Diego and has previously researched amphibious throwable robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, virtual reality, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.public.navy.mil\/spawar\/Pacific\/Robotics\/Pages\/default.aspx\">many other technologies<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=cd55476d3b1a620fd7c0a3e6e601ef33&tab=core&tabmode=list&=\">filing<\/a> does not actually cover the cost of quantum computing hardware. But NASA has been allowing SPAWAR scientists to learn how to use the D-Wave machine that <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/05\/16\/google-nasa-quantum-computing\/\">it operates with Google at the NASA Ames Research Center<\/a>, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2016\/apr\/28\/NASA-Navy-quantum\/\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em> reported last month.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers employ quantum bits, or qubits, each of which can be zero or one or both, unlike the regular bits in classical computers. The superposition of qubits lets machines perform great numbers of computations at once, making a quantum computer highly desirable for certain types of processes. Google <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/12\/08\/google-says-its-quantum-computer-is-more-than-100-million-times-faster-than-a-regular-computer-chip\/\">recently found<\/a> that quantum annealing with D-Wave hardware is 100 times faster than simulated annealing on a classic computer chip.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/05\/17\/u-s-navys-spawar-will-pay-d-wave-11-million-for-quantum-computer-training\/\">http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/05\/17\/u-s-navys-spawar-will-pay-...-training\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy paying D-Wave to train them on QC. A division of the U.S. Navy intends to pay Canadian company D-Wave $11 million to learn how to use its quantum computing infrastructure, according to a federal filing posted online on Monday. The unit seeking this training is the Navy\u2019s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,9,1617,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-military","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41788,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25848\/revisions\/41788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}