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Israel's quantum sector grew from about five companies in 2019 to more than 20 in 2025 and has raised more than $1 billion in private capital. A national committee recommended a dedicated governance body for the next phase.
The US, China, and the EU now use export controls, investment rules, equity stakes, and their own standards to secure quantum technology. The EU has also drafted procurement preferences. Because quantum companies buy abroad, governments keep exemptions for partners.
QuIC says member states apply the rules inconsistently and that exporters face long, unpredictable waits. It gave no figures on licensing times and asked the Commission to start publishing them.
Applicants must pay 30% of project costs in cash. Each pilot must finish within six months and by October 31, 2027. CSA has published neither a total budget nor a per-project cap.
DOE drew the problems from chemistry, materials, subatomic physics, and applied mathematics. It wrote that it did not set target problem sizes and chose problems that first-generation machines could tackle in small demonstrations.
About $200 million is new funding tied to the final stage of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. The rest is a proposed loan to PsiQuantum that the company said is conditional and not guaranteed.
Allies approved NATO's first quantum technology roadmap on July 30. In its public summary, NATO dated activities through 2029, from sea trials of quantum navigation sensors to an Alliance quantum standards roadmap.
From a Finnish refrigerator at IBM to physicists trained in Britain, France, and Australia, U.S. quantum computers draw on other countries. Many domestic substitutes are years from scale, so Washington needs allied supply as well as factories.
The 160 surveyed companies named the countries where they buy, sell, and manufacture, but not what they buy or in what volumes. China, whose companies were not invited, ranked sixth as a supplier location.
Europe's quantum industry consortium said the European Commission kept six quantum pilot lines in its draft but listed no quantum area among its priorities for strategic projects. It asked for quantum chip manufacturing to be added.
