In 18 months, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said her administration went from thinking about building an ecosystem for quantum technologies in New Mexico to now having a “live, breathing and well-organized” environment in which the industry can thrive.

That work by state officials and stakeholders led to Lujan Grisham announcing Tuesday the state’s newest partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to develop the Quantum Frontier Project as part of the defense agency’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative — which aims to accelerate the development, testing and validation of emerging quantum technologies.

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