Government · Cheltenham
GCHQ, the Cheltenham intelligence, security and cyber agency, was one of the government bodies that set up the National Quantum Technologies Programme in 2014. Its main quantum concern is defensive: keeping UK cryptography safe once large quantum computers arrive. Its National Cyber Security Centre, the UK authority on quantum-safe cryptography, has published advice on quantum key distribution since November 2016 and has set post-quantum migration targets, with the highest-priority systems to move by 2031 and all systems by 2035. In a 2019 speech its technology director general also offered GCHQ's real problems and data as a proving ground for new quantum computing devices.
Government Communications Headquarters is a government body based in Cheltenham. It appears as a partner in NQTP.
Sources: About the NQTP (UKRI) · Director General for Technology highlights importance of the National Quantum Technology Programme (GCHQ) · Timelines for migration to post-quantum cryptography (NCSC)
NQTP
The UK's national programme for quantum technologies, set up in 2014 as a partnership between government, academia and industry.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Sensing, Imaging, Timing and navigation, Communications, Networks, Skills and training
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