About
BBN Technologies (Raytheon BBN Technologies) is a high-technology research and development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1948. It is one of the organizations conducting superconducting quantum computing research, alongside Google, IBM, Rigetti, and Intel. BBN developed quantum communication protocols and quantum networking technologies, contributing to early quantum key distribution systems and quantum network architectures. Now part of Raytheon Technologies, it continues research focused on quantum processors, quantum networking, and quantum algorithms. The company serves government agencies and research institutions that need advanced quantum technologies for secure communications, quantum computing infrastructure, and quantum information processing. Update 2026-04-02: BBN Technologies released Maude-HCS, an open-source toolkit funded by DARPA’s PWND2 program, to model hidden communication networks. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/bbn-technologies-rtxs-open-source/
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