About this Webinar:

Quantum technologies are approaching a critical inflection point. Over the next three to five years, advanced quantum sensors and computers once confined to laboratories will begin to have real-world impact, with significant economic and national security implications. But the United States faces a major industrial challenge: its quantum supply chains are thin, globally dispersed—in some cases reliant on China and Russia—and poorly positioned for the transition to commercial utility, posing significant vulnerabilities for quantum’s continued development and deployment. This talk will offer a framework for assessing these gaps across quantum hardware modalities, enabling technologies, and vulnerability categories, as well as recommendations to strengthen the industrial foundations of U.S. quantum leadership.

Speaker:

Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, PhD, is a fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she leads the Center’s quantum policy research. Her work examines the intersection of quantum technologies with U.S. national and economic security, and currently focuses on the supply chains, manufacturing capacity, and deployment infrastructure needed to scale and sustain the United States’ quantum competitiveness.

Vidal Bustamante is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to CNAS, she was a science and technology policy researcher at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where she led research on semiconductor workforce development, digital technology governance, and the domestic and international dynamics shaping the United States’ strategy for technology leadership. 

Vidal Bustamante holds doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees from Harvard University.

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