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<br>Hearing Wrap Up: U.S. Must Update Technology to Get Ready For the Quantum Age<br> |
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<br>WASHINGTON-Yesterday, the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, [Information Technology](https://pattondemos.com/quality-excellence/), and Government Innovation held a hearing entitled "Getting ready for the Quantum Age: When Cryptography Breaks." During the members stressed the United States has a commitment to compete for technological supremacy and needs to update cybersecurity procedures to maintain its competitive edge. Members stressed the federal government must improve federal IT systems and update cybersecurity protocols to safeguard Americans' [information technology](https://pattondemos.com/industry/) from possible hacks and breaches from hostile countries like China.<br>[weforum.org](http://cn.weforum.org/people/ali-m-khouri) |
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<br>Key Takeaways:<br> |
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<br>The United States is contending for technological dominance in numerous domains, including quantum computing and expert system, and need to continue innovating to maintain its lead.<br> |
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<br>- Marisol Cruz Cain, Director of Infotech and Cybersecurity at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, affirmed in her opening statement that" [The] United States requires to establish a strong quantum labor force to preserve its leadership position in quantum innovation, hardware, and software application advancement. In doing so, leveraging programs, training, and working with are essential. For instance, education programs might provide the certifications and abilities needed to operate in quantum innovations throughout both the general public and economic sector. Second, the continual investment is especially important to advance these innovations. To do so, standard funding for research and early advancement activities is vital."<br> |
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<br>Quantum computing will considerably impact daily innovation and cybersecurity worldwide as countries develop the next generation of computer systems.<br> |
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<br>- Ms. Cruz Cain testified that "As you know, quantum computer systems hold the pledge of resolving vital issues that traditional computers can not. These computer systems utilize the home of quantum physics to carry out computations drastically quicker than today's conventional computer systems. This enables them to execute substantially higher numbers of estimations in the very same quantity of time. This increased computing power has possible applications in numerous different fields. For instance, quantum computer systems might be able to simulate critical chemistry processes for developing brand-new fertilizers and medicines. However, the other hand of this potential is that quantum computer systems can threaten the security of info systems and the data they consist of, including those managed by the federal government. For instance, quantum computer systems could defeat extensively used file encryption approaches that individuals, federal companies, and important facilities entities count on."<br> |
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<br>- Denis Mandich, Chief [Technology](https://pattondemos.com/about-us/) Officer at Qrypt, affirmed that "The timeline is shrinking. The threshold is roughly four thousand logical qubits, and leading programs are racing towards that mark already. Delay is not just risky, it's unreasonable. Progress in quantum computing is nonlinear and vulnerable to abrupt advancements, and our foes have every reward to conceal milestones up until it's too late. But the real threat isn't only in the quantum threat-it's our complacency. We have actually seen this pattern before. FLAME malware exploited weak cryptography many years ago, lingering undiscovered for several years. Storm-0558 from China, you're probably knowledgeable about, led to Microsoft's master signing secret being stolen, jeopardizing nearly all federal firms."<br> |
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<br>The federal government requires to make more development toward modernizing federal IT systems and upgrading cybersecurity protocols.<br> |
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<br>- Subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) mentioned in her opening statement that "An essential role of this Subcommittee is to guarantee appropriate cybersecurity of federal innovation. Something all specialists agree on is a sufficiently advanced quantum computer will overthrow cryptographic security in every sector consisting of finance, health care, and defense. The federal government should not wait to tackle this enormous task. Already, we understand foreign foes are implementing a "steal now, decrypt later on" strategy with the hope today's data will still be important when they have a quantum computer.<br> |
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<br>- Dr. Scott Crowder, Vice President of IBM Quantum Adoption, affirmed in his opening statement that" [The] U.S. federal government and industry should become quantum safe and quantum prepared. If the market continues to advance at the expected speed, quantum computer systems will have the capability to break asymmetric encryption. [National Institute of Standards and Technology] has recommended existing file encryption vulnerable to quantum computer systems be prohibited by 2035, and previous experiences have actually revealed broad adoption of new cryptography can take more than a decade. Thus, we must act now. We must guarantee our nation's most critical systems are safe from danger. Thankfully, this Committee has actually realized this requirement and has actually already started acting. Congress can help further by supporting the passage of extra legislation that makes sure quick adoption of post-quantum cryptography and appropriating funds to support this shift."<br> |
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<br>Member Highlights:<br> |
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<br>Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace asked about China's quantum computing and expert system abilities compared to the United States and the hazard it produces.<br> |
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<br>Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace: "How far behind do you believe China is from the U.S. on AI?"<br> |
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<br>Mr. Mandich: "I think it's another scenario where I do believe that simply, again, having actually observed them for so long, they have access to everything that we have actually every done in all of our companies. All of our business have been permeated as far as we understand. Many of their employees remain in China. In a lot of cases, those staff members really physically work from remote areas in Chinese intelligence agencies, not even in the economic sector. So I do feel that since they're so quiet about this, they're being extremely secretive about what they're doing. We do not even know the names of the quantum companies in China. There's just a couple of them that are public, the rest of them are totally unknown. We're likely going to experience a DeepSeek moment in quantum computing. There was no DeepSeek before ChatGPT 3, that turned up later on, which showed up extremely rapidly and that didn't happen from essential research study. It originated from information theft and IP monetization."<br> |
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<br>Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) expressed issue about the connection between Chinese worldwide students at American universities and the increasing technological competition between China and the U.S.<br> |
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<br>Rep. Crane:" [Mr. Mandich], you stated you worked in the intelligence field for a long time? Does it concern you that universities like Brown and others allow trainees to come here-sometimes they come here and say that they're [going to] start an English program-and then they work with maybe a considerate professor who moves them into something like nuclear engineering or quantum computing, and then they wind up competing with the United States?"<br> |
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<br>Mr. Mandich: "Well, you understand, we understand that China floods the United States with trainees. That's their frontline collection platforms. It floods not just the university system, however practically every company you can consider with collectors. So, we require to do a far better job of limiting that because we've efficiently trained their whole quantum industry here in the United States. Very little of that took place locally in China. So, we need to throw down the gauntlet, but we likewise need more Americans to enter these fields, and get out of social networks and TikTok, that we get to be the majority in these programs and not the minority."<br> |
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<br>Rep. John McGuire (R-Va.) asked about areas of U.S. quantum innovation most at risk of being overtaken by foreign foes.<br>[weforum.org](http://cn.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/special-meeting-2024...) |
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<br>Rep. McGuire: "So, Dr. Crowder, what areas of U.S. quantum innovation are most at risk of being surpassed by a foreign adversary?"<br> |
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<br>Dr. Crowder: "I believe, there's once again, there's two pieces of it. One of them is developing the very best quantum computer systems on the world. Maybe three things. Based upon public data, we believe we have a lead over any location else worldwide today, but that's only based on public data. The second location remains in the algorithms and applications. And right now, I would state, we're seeing a bit more financial investment by other governments than by the U.S.<br> |
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