China's Quantum-Encrypting Satellites Shrink, Networking Abilities Grow

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“The launch is significant,” says physicist Paul Kwiat of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, because it means the [Chinese] are starting to build, and not just plan, a quantum network.

In the absence of fixes, the NSA does not anticipate approving QKD for national security communications.

The US CHIPS Act of 2022, signed on 9 August, allocated more than $153,000 ,000 a year for quantum computing and networks.