IonQ and ARLIS collaborate on a zero-trust quantum-security framework for national security
On 2026-03-10 IonQ announced a collaboration with the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) to establish a zero-trust security framework leveraging quantum networking and security technologies for national-security applications. The announcement is a research collaboration without disclosed contract value.
A named research collaboration with a U.S. national-security applied-research lab extends IonQ's defense-and-security positioning (alongside the MDA SHIELD vehicle and Romania QKD work), but as an early-stage framework collaboration it sits low in the band.
Zero-trust architectures incorporating quantum networking/security are a credible near-term federal use case for IonQ's ID Quantique-anchored networking stack; funded task orders would raise materiality.