SPTel, a joint venture company of ST Engineering and SP Group, and SpeQtral, a Singapore-based company focused on quantum communications, today announced that they have been jointly appointed by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) to build the National Quantum-Safe Network Plus (NQSN+), Singapore’s first nationwide quantum-safe network. When completed, NQSN+ will be an interoperable network fortified with quantum encryption capabilities that will provide unparalleled data protection for critical government and commercial applications.

Japan’s Q-STAR propels quantum technology’s global impact, emphasising practical applications and prioritising collaboration and societal problem-solving.

The British government has announced five Quantum Missions to build the United Kingdom’s capabilities in Quantum Computing and Quantum technology. Announced on the 22nd of November 2023, the National Quantum Strategy Missions have five specific missions, which include building a quantum computer capable of running 1 trillion calculations by 2035.

The SES-led consortium of European companies, responsible for development of the quantum secure space-based EAGLE-1 system and working in close collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), is joined by TNO and Airbus Netherlands B.V., to design and build an optical ground station for the mission. The contract was signed today by the partners at the Space Tech Expo in Bremen.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded jointly to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter".

SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) and LQUOM, Inc. (“LQUOM”) launched a trial to study the communication of entangled photons as a step toward realizing a quantum Internet. The field study will transmit entangled photons through optical fiber in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. The optical fiber of this study links SoftBank's headquarters and its data center in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. LQUOM will integrate a quantum communication system with the field fiber. Accordingly, SoftBank and LQUOM will investigate quantum communication technology in a practical environment in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

Toshiba has officially opened the new, cutting edge Quantum Technology Centre in a ceremony attended by Lord Johnson, Minister of Investment in the Department for Business and Trade for the UK Government, and Hajime Hayashi, Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom. The new facility, located in the Cambridge Science Park, is a commercial offshoot from the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory and represents a £20 million investment from Toshiba into the development of quantum-secure networking solutions and will initially create over 30 new jobs in high-technology industry.

Long-distance quantum communication can be achieved by directly sending light through space using a train of orbiting satellites that function as optical lenses.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $24 million in funding for three collaborative projects in quantum network research.