New Mexico cybersecurity leader calls for quantum safeguards while state inks deal with major player

Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a partnership with Japan-based tech company Fujitsu to establish a quantum computing research center in New Mexico.

The timing of both meetings emphasized how quickly quantum computing is developing in government and business.

The Quantum World Congress in September recognized just two states — New Mexico and Illinois — as national leaders in quantum technology investment.

While Baran was speaking in Los Alamos, Lujan Grisham was inking a memorandum of understanding in Santa Fe with Fujitsu.

I’m banking that that is the future of innovation and investment in the state,” Lujan Grisham said at a news conference in the Roundhouse Thursday morning.