BDC announced $1 billion in new allocations under its existing $6 billion Defence Platform to support Canadian defence and dual-use technology companies.The plan includes $500 million for defence-focused venture capital, growth equity and private equity funds, with priorities including AI, cybersecurity, space, quantum technologies and energy systems.BDC will add $200 million to StrongNorth, increasing the fund from $300 million to $500 million for early-stage Canadian companies developing defence and dual-use technologies.

European quantum leaders called for coordinated action to turn the region’s scientific expertise into industrial capacity, competitive companies and strategic strength.The proposed EU Quantum Act is expected to promote cooperation, market consolidation, supply-chain resilience and links with sectors such as semiconductors, photonics and cloud computing.Speakers identified fragmented investment, limited coordination and competition for skilled workers as major obstacles to building a unified European quantum market.

Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ) has received a $20 million follow-on contract from NASA to advance the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf) mission, led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The award brings total NASA funding for the space-based quantum gravity sensing program to $40 million, moving the mission into its next phase of hardware integration, sub-system fabrication, and microgravity ground testing.

A key rate of approximately 1.43 megabits per second was achieved through the first simultaneous operation of Continuous-Variable and Discrete-Variable Quantum Key Distribution systems on a shared optical channel. The joint operation utilised wavelength-division multiplexing with colleagues at Sorbonne University and Paris Saclay University in France. Data transmission succeeded across both seventy kilometers of optical fibre and a six hundred and twenty metre daylight free-space link without detectable performance reduction.

Rep. Nick Langworthy introduced the American Quantum Competitiveness Act to strengthen U.S. quantum commercialization, manufacturing and domestic supply chains.The bill would designate the Commerce Department as the federal lead for commercial quantum technology and require a national competitiveness strategy.The legislation emphasizes reducing dependence on foreign adversaries and supporting advanced manufacturing along New York’s I-90 technology corridor.

Cyprus and Greece have established their first quantum-secure satellite data connection using Sparkle’s Quantum Safe Interconnect (QSI) system and Hellas Sat’s satellite infrastructure.The connection links Sparkle’s data centre in Athens with Hellas Sat infrastructure in Cyprus, with data travelling about 72,000 kilometres through the satellite system.The companies said the trial demonstrates how software-based quantum-safe protection can be applied to existing terrestrial and satellite networks to address harvest-now-decrypt-later risks.

Australia and Japan are building on decades of science and technology cooperation through a new agreement focused on quantum science, technology and innovation.

Legislation codifies two pieces of Trump executive order on quantum science

The Trump administration says the nation’s science and technology research ecosystem needs to embrace “novel security solutions” to ensure the U.S. maintains its global edge, according to a new document publicly released on Monday. 

Canadian Minister of National Defence David J. McGuinty has announced the launch of Canada’s first Quantum Defence Innovation Secure Hub (DISH) in Calgary, Alberta. Operated by a 13-member consortium led by the University of Calgary and its Quantum City initiative—under Managing Director Dr. Megan Lee—the hub will receive $20.3 million CAD over two years to accelerate the transition of domestic quantum research into mission-ready operational capabilities for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE).