New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- IonQ has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sandia National Laboratories to explore the accelerated co-design of quantum information science technologies for U.S. national security applications. The collaboration brings together IonQ's commercial quantum capabilities and Sandia's scientific, engineering, and research expertise.

The partnership is expected to focus on quantum computing and networking technologies that could support future government missions. Rather than developing hardware, software, and applications separately, quantum co-design involves optimizing different parts of a quantum system together. This approach could help researchers improve performance, scalability, connectivity, and mission rea...