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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia's national science agency and a central institution in Australia's quantum technology ecosystem. CSIRO's quantum research spans silicon spin qubits, quantum-enhanced sensing, and quantum applications development, with a strategic role in translating quantum research from Australia's universities into commercial applications. CSIRO maintains close partnerships with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), the UNSW-led venture targeting 10-qubit utility-scale silicon spin qubits, and it supported the foundational quantum research at UNSW that led to the world-record 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity milestone achieved in December 2025. CSIRO's quantum sensing research covers quantum magnetometers for geological surveying, quantum gravimeters, and quantum-enhanced timing systems with applications in mining, agriculture, and defence. CSIRO administers the Quantum Technologies Future Science Platform (QT FSP), which coordinates cross-disciplinary quantum research across the organisation. It also plays a role in Australia's National Quantum Strategy, contributing to the quantum workforce pipeline, quantum applications development for Australian industries, and international quantum research partnerships with the US through AUKUS, the UK, and Japan. The agency operates the Data61 quantum algorithms group, which works on quantum-classical hybrid methods for optimisation and machine learning. Update 2026-03-19: CSIRO demonstrated a novel quantum battery that charges faster as it scales up. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/csiro-quantum-batteries-validates-potential/
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