Industry use cases
Smarter sensor for ISR
Origami Labs and ORCA built a hybrid multi-agent optimiser to improve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR): coordinating jet-fighter sensor management and dynamic missile routing.
Mission planning around defined threats.
BAE Systems and ORCA developed a quantum-accelerated approach to route aircraft from start point to objective, avoiding defined threat zones.
Getting more from every missile.
MBDA and ORCA applied quantum accelerated optimisation to missile flight-path planning and collaborative-missile launch strategy.
The mission challenge
Modern defence operations demand split-second decisions across enormous, shifting variable spaces: routing aircraft around dynamic threat zones, coordinating sensor tasking across multiple platforms in real time, and planning missile flight paths collaboratively rather than in isolation. As the number of assets, threats, and constraints grows, classical systems struggle to compute optimal solutions fast enough to matter operationally.
Why quantum?
The result of classical systems hitting a computational wall is a trade-off between speed and precision. When the stakes are this high, you shouldn't have to compromise. By applying quantum, you don't have to. A photonic quantum accelerator samples from complex distributions which enables wider exploration of smarter solutions, all at mission-critical speed.
The value ORCA Computing delivers
ORCA's photonic quantum accelerator installs securely on-premise and works alongside your existing classical workflow, so teams keep their models, data, and tooling while extending what they can compute. And even better news? All of this can be delivered under strict power constraints, which is crucial to maintain a combat edge.
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