""The real plan here is to kind of co-develop with industry," Kushmerick said. "NIST and other government laboratories have the expertise and the technology. Industry is capable of commercializing it and pushing it out the door and creating that economic and quantum advantage and dominance that we're looking for.""
""For quantum computing in particular, when we started the [National Quantum Initiative], we were in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum regime, where... [it's] just hard to do things," Kushmerick said. "And now we have demonstrations of error correction in quantum sys""
Better government and private sector coordination is needed to bridge the gap between quantum research and commercial applications. The application landscape of quantum technologies, particularly computing, remains in early stages and requires industry help to innovate past fundamental technology challenges. Public and private investment in quantum technology continues to grow, with an October 2025 McKinsey report estimating approximately $2 billion invested globally in 2024. Expectations for commercial applications that deliver return on investment are rising, especially with a projected arrival of a fault-tolerant quantum computer around 2030. Government laboratories possess expertise and technology while industry holds commercialization capability; technological barriers persist despite progress such as demonstrations of error correction.
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