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Industry witnesses urge federal purchases, testbeds and funding to move quantum from lab to market
Summary
Executives from QEDC, Google, PsiQuantum and Microsoft told the House Science Committee that government procurement, shared fabrication and prototyping infrastructure, and targeted follow-on funding would accelerate commercialization of quantum technologies and attract private capital.
Industry and consortium witnesses told the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee that the federal government can accelerate quantum commercialization by expanding access to testbeds, serving as an early customer, and supporting follow-on prototyping funding.
Celia Mertzbacher, executive director of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QEDC), told lawmakers that small- and mid-sized companies most frequently identify access to customers and infrastructure as top barriers. "Markets are small, and frankly, the killer app has not yet been identified," she said, urging modest government commitments to buy…
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