{"id":21621,"date":"2025-08-25T06:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21621\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:28:07","slug":"sqc-inks-multi-million-dollar-defence-quantum-contract-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21621\/","title":{"rendered":"SQC inks multi-million dollar Defence quantum contract \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quantum computing startup founded by former Australian of the Year <b>Michelle Simmons<\/b> has scored a seven-figure Department of Defence contract as it looks to commercialise eight years of research and development.<\/p>\n<p><b>Silicon Quantum Computing<\/b> will ship its Watermelon units under the contract to Defence via its emerging technology accelerator. The Watermelon units combine quantum and standard processors to speed up AI development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s vital for leading quantum computing companies to become commercial organisations alongside being scientific leaders,\u201d SQC founder <b>Michelle Simmons<\/b> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur customers are some of the biggest R&amp;D spenders in the world. Learning how to win contracts, onboard organisations and deliver value is part of the journey of becoming a big enterprise ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quantum computing startup founded by former Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons has scored a seven-figure Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[314,12803,18,19,17,751,238,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-21621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-deep-tech","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-quantum-computing","14":"tag-startups","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}