D-Wave, Anduril and Davidson report a missile-defense quantum application with 10x faster time-to-solution
On 2026-01-27 D-Wave Quantum, Anduril Industries and Davidson Technologies announced a defense collaboration applying D-Wave's Stride hybrid solver on the Advantage2 system to air-and-missile-defense optimization. In a 500-missile attack simulation the hybrid-quantum approach reported a 10x faster time-to-solution and a 9-12% improvement in threat mitigation versus classical-only methods.
A quantified defense-optimization result with a major defense-tech partner (Anduril) and a government-systems integrator (Davidson) gives D-Wave a named, metric-backed national-security use case for annealing, complementing its new U.S. Government Business Unit; it is a simulation/PoC result rather than a fielded contract.
Air-and-missile-defense optimization is a credible near-term annealing application, and partnering with Anduril routes D-Wave toward defense programs of record; conversion from simulation to funded deployment is the proof point.