Quantum Technology Challenge 2022 (QTC2022)
Tender ID: 472887
Tender Details
Tender Description
Quantum technologies exploit the fundamental laws of nature to reach the ultimate limits of sensing, imaging, communications and computing. They are diverse, complex, and generally early in technical readiness and demand new ways of thinking about the employment and exploitation of technology. Their true capabilities, limitations and most disruptive applications are still being discovered. This combination of disruptive potential, ambiguity and complexity presents both strategic risks and opportunities to land forces. As a result, the Australian Army finds itself in an accelerating global competition to understand, co-develop and exploit quantum technologies in land operations.
The emergence of quantum technology is part of a larger transformation of warfare, where geopolitics, demographics and technology are driving changes in the character of warfare at a rate faster than which many of Army’s processes, concepts, capabilities and structures are designed. Army has termed this change Accelerated Warfare and has mounted the strategic response: Army in Motion. Army has identified that the emergence of quantum technologies will impact two of the major technological drivers of Accelerated Warfare: robotics and autonomous systems, and cyber and information warfare.
In response, Army released the Army Quantum Technology Roadmap. The Roadmap articulates Army’s plan to leverage Australia’s national strategic strength in quantum technology research, its emerging quantum industry and cooperation with aligned nations, to gain and retain an early quantum advantage.
The Department of Defence via the Australian Army and the Land Capability Division (Defence) is seeking proposals that will demonstrate solutions to The Challenge (defined below) at the Quantum Technology Challenge 2022 (QTC2022), tentatively scheduled to be held on 11 August 2022 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. This date and location may change in response to COVID-19 travel restrictions and Defence suitability requirements.
The Challenge
In this Challenge, Defence wishes to test if:
quantum sensors can detect, locate and identify electromagnetic emitters with greater precision, range and bandwidth, whilst reducing (or at least not increasing) detector size, weight and power
quantum computers can identify and classify features in signals and images more precisely and efficiently post-quantum cryptography can be practically employed to secure communications from the threat of quantum computers.
The following three sub-themes define specific examples of the above in land operations. These examples have been chosen because they are both sufficiently specific and tangible for respondents to make appropriate assumptions and produce meaningful results, whilst also being generalisable to other situations and tasks in land operations.
Proposals must directly address one of the sub-themes.
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
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