"D-Wave has made its quantum annealing computer available through a major defense contractor, offering expanded access to its quantum machines for federal defense customers. Announced on Friday, the partnership with Davidson Technologies has made one of D-Wave's Advantage2 annealers operational and available for government customers working on mission-critical tasks in the Department of Defense and aerospace sectors. The computer is installed on site at Davidson's headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama. Users will be able to access the computer's capabilities through D-Wave's cloud software."
"In quantum computing, annealing refers to a computer working to solve a problem by finding the minimum energy solution - or ground energy state - which corresponds to the optimal solution. Quantum annealing specializes in optimization problems, which look for the best solution from a set of all feasible outcomes, exploiting the superposition properties of qubits to generate those possible solutions."
The partnership with Davidson Technologies installs a D-Wave Advantage2 quantum annealer at Davidson's Huntsville, Alabama headquarters and makes the system available to Department of Defense and aerospace customers. Users can access the machine through D-Wave's cloud software while hardware remains on site. Quantum annealing targets optimization problems by searching for minimum energy (ground state) solutions across feasible outcomes using qubit superposition. These annealers are specialized rather than general-purpose quantum computers. A March 2025 D-Wave paper reported annealer performance exceeding classical simulations in some experiments. The installation is intended to support national security missions, operational workloads, and published use cases such as Port of Los Angeles cargo loading optimization.
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