{"id":62220,"date":"2026-05-08T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/62220\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:06:59","slug":"swiss-based-terra-quantum-lands-us-air-force-deal-ahead-of-nasdaq-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/62220\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss-based Terra Quantum lands US Air Force deal ahead of Nasdaq listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Dave Graham<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ZURICH, May 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Swiss-German firm Terra Quantum said on Thursday it had \u200cwon a U.S. Air Force contract to \u200csupply software that simulates secure military communications in contested battlefield \u200bconditions, ahead of a Nasdaq listing valuing it at $3.25 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The quantum technology firm did not disclose the terms of the agreement with the world&#8217;s largest \u200cair force, and \u2060the deal is part of longer-term cooperation between the pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The delivery of this \u2060platform to the U.S. Air Force represents an important step in transitioning quantum-secure communications from research \u200binto operational \u200bcapability,&#8221; said Terra Quantum&#8217;s \u200bGerman founder and CEO, \u200cMarkus Pflitsch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The deal is notable due to current tensions between Europe and the United States over military cooperation due to disagreements linked to the conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The platform simulates how quantum-secured communications \u200cwould perform in difficult battlefield \u200bconditions, including jamming, weak or \u200bunreliable signals, and \u200blimited bandwidth. This allows military users \u200cto test and refine the \u200btechnology before \u200bdeploying it on actual missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Separately, Terra Quantum said it had deployed a quantum key distribution \u200blink connecting \u200cMaltese telecom firm Melita&#8217;s two main data centres \u200bacross a live fibre network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Dave \u200bGrahamEditing by Bernadette Baum)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dave Graham ZURICH, May 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Swiss-German firm Terra Quantum said on Thursday it had \u200cwon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34188,27600,41,34187,17,27596,27597],"class_list":{"0":"post-62220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-military-cooperation","9":"tag-quantum-technology","10":"tag-swiss","11":"tag-swiss-german","12":"tag-switzerland","13":"tag-terra-quantum","14":"tag-u-s-air-force"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116539348909866202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}