What Happened
Advancing Warfighter Missions With Quantum-Enabled Flight Capabilities
Northrop Grumman has successfully demonstrated quantum-enabled flight capabilities on its Lumberjack uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), showcasing the potential for advanced navigation in GPS-denied environments. The Lumberjack UAS, equipped with an electronic warfare suite and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology, was able to detect tiny variations in the Earth’s magnetic field using quantum sensors from SandboxAQ. This technology may provide a significant advantage in contested environments, and the demonstration was reported by an unknown source.