Kick-off for the QBN Working Group “Defen­se and Secu­ri­ty”

New QBN Working Group addres­ses Defen­se and Secu­ri­ty Aspects of Quan­tum Tech­no­lo­gies:

Quan­tum Tech­no­lo­gies – inclu­ding Quan­tum Sens­ing, Quan­tum Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on, and Quan­tum Com­pu­ting – have the poten­ti­al to fun­da­men­tal­ly trans­form many are­as of ever­y­day life. At the same time, they intro­du­ce new vul­nerabi­li­ties, depen­den­ci­es and chal­lenges that must be addres­sed ear­ly and dis­cus­sed stra­te­gi­cal­ly. Against this back­drop, the Quan­tum Busi­ness Net­work (QBN) con­ve­ned the con­sti­tu­ent mee­ting of its new “Defen­se and Secu­ri­ty” working group in the run-up to the Munich Secu­ri­ty Con­fe­rence and the Ger­man Defen­se Inno­va­ti­on Day, ther­eby offi­ci­al­ly laun­ching a clo­sed, high-level forum.

The working group sees its­elf as a stra­te­gic plat­form for dia­lo­gue on Quan­tum Tech­no­lo­gies in the con­text of defen­se, deter­rence and resi­li­ence, as well as their rapid deploy­ment in secu­ri­ty-rele­vant appli­ca­ti­ons. Its stra­te­gic pil­lars include, among others, the inte­gra­ti­on of inno­va­ti­ve SMEs into the deve­lo­p­ment of defen­se and secu­ri­ty capa­bi­li­ties and the acce­le­ra­ti­on of the secu­re imple­men­ta­ti­on of Quan­tum Tech­no­lo­gies in mili­ta­ry envi­ron­ments. It is not a tech­ni­cal stan­dar­diza­ti­on body, but rather a stra­te­gic forum that com­ple­ments exis­ting initia­ti­ves through long-term ori­en­ta­ti­on, risk awa­re­ness, the iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties, and cross-sec­tor coor­di­na­ti­on.

At the kick-off in mid-Febru­ary 2026, high-level repre­sen­ta­ti­ves from defen­se minis­tries, defen­se pri­mes, secu­ri­ty aut­ho­ri­ties, the Quan­tum Indus­try, rese­arch orga­niza­ti­ons and the inves­tor com­mu­ni­ty came tog­e­ther. To ensu­re stra­te­gic depth, con­fi­den­tia­li­ty, and a poli­cy-rele­vant exch­an­ge, par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in the working group is limi­t­ed to sel­ec­ted indi­vi­du­als. At the same time, QBN invi­tes stake­hol­ders from govern­ments, defen­se and secu­ri­ty insti­tu­ti­ons, indus­try, and rese­arch to enga­ge in the working group’s acti­vi­ties. Orga­niza­ti­ons with stra­te­gic respon­si­bi­li­ties, rele­vant exper­ti­se, or a man­da­te to shape future defen­se and secu­ri­ty capa­bi­li­ties are expli­cit­ly encou­ra­ged to con­tri­bu­te. Click here for more infor­ma­ti­on.

 

Source refe­rence: https://qbn.world/qbn-inaugurate-high-level-working-group-on-quantum-technologies-for-defence-security-in-run-up-to-munich-security-conference-and-aligned-with-military-and-allied-priorities/