US President Donald Trump has ordered a push to build a powerful quantum computer for scientific research and speed efforts to protect government systems from related cyber threats, bolstering US efforts in its race with China for a technology that could upend science and cybersecurity.
"We believe this can happen by 2028," Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a call previewing the moves and referring to the quantum computer.
Trump signed two executive orders on Monday, one of which seeks to protect government computers against quantum computer-fuelled cyber attacks by setting a goal of migrating key government computing systems to post-quantum cryptography by 2030 or 2031.
