B1/2: Quantum PNT

Time:
Monday, June 1, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Monday, June 1, 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Location: Ballroom E

Amid the Department of War’s concerted efforts to create position, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems complementary to GPS, quantum sensors and timing devices are entering the commercial world, being developed for specific military applications, and rapidly advancing in technological readiness. In this context, it is important to understand how the further development of these technologies will improve PNT. In this tutorial, we will compare today’s quantum sensors and complementary PNT systems to their classical counterparts, compare different complementary PNT techniques, and provide a broad overview of where quantum sensors are likely, or unlikely, to make an impact on complementary PNT.

Dr. Bonnie Marlow is a physicist specializing in quantum sensors and nonlinear optics. Her work is centered around enabling risk reduction for the development and deployment of quantum and other emerging technologies. Currently, Bonnie is a Research Program Leader at MITRE, where she manages an internal R&D portfolio developing RF, optical, acoustic, and PNT devices and systems. Bonnie holds a PhD degree in Physics from Duke University. Her doctoral research focused on experimental and theoretical studies of nonlinear optical effects in ultracold atoms. She was also a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Quantum Institute, where her research focused on non-classical states of light for precision metrology.

Dr. Maxwell Gregoire is a physicist in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Warfare Directorate, specializing in quantum technology, levitated optomechanics, and metrology. Maxwell manages several programs developing quantum technologies for navigation and communication, and he leads an in-house research group conducting fundamental and applied research in levitated optomechanics. Maxwell earned his PhD in physics at the University of Arizona, where he used atom interferometry to make high-accuracy measurements of alkali-atom properties and to explore inertial sensing.