218: The One with the IonQ Chief Quantum Evangelist

Podcast: The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester · Brian Chidester

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

Katie Arrington, former CIO for the United States Department of War and current Chief Quantum Evangelist at IonQ joins the show to discuss what makes quantum fundamentally different from AI and why the US-China race for "Q-Day" has no second-place finisher. She explains IonQ's ion-trapping approach, the current fidelity numbers closing in on the 256-qubit threshold, and why quantum's energy footprint could reshape data centers and national resource strategy. Finally we cover why "harvest now, decrypt later" undersells the real threat, why the US needs new incentives (tax relief, capital gains waivers) to out-commercialize China, and her definition of...