BosonQ Psi Federal LLC (BQP) has secured SpaceWERX funding to advance the company’s quantum-assisted AI platform to improve space domain awareness (SDA). This is the company’s first federal contract.
The award is part of the SpaceWERX Open Topic Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Under the award announced Friday, BQP will develop and validate a new software application designed to improve the speed and accuracy of identifying unknown objects and behaviors in space.
Its software platform, Physics-Constrained Quantum-Assisted Machine Learning (PC-QAML), combines physics-based modeling with quantum-inspired computational techniques to perform AI inference. It is designed to run directly on directly on space-qualified processors rather than cloud computing or GPUs.
“Our goal is to make advanced AI practical where it matters most: on satellites and forward-deployed systems operating with limited computing power and intermittent communications,” explained Rut Lineswala, founder and CTO of BQP. “This award represents an important validation of our technology and gives us the opportunity to demonstrate how quantum-inspired computing can solve real operational challenges for national security today.”
BQP has previously worked with the Space Domain Awareness Tap Lab and supports mission objectives for both Space Operations Command (SpOC) Mission Delta 2 and Space Systems Command (SSC).
