Welcome to the UNSW’s Defence Research Institute’s podcast Defence Research, in episode three of season two, DRI Director Paul Maddison discusses the future of defence research with Professor Michelle Simmons who is a quantum physicist and a Scientia Professor at the University of NSW. Together they discuss quantum computing and how the capability of quantum technologies have the ability to accelerate the future and help our defence and defence industries become faster, smarter and more unpredictable in the race for capability superiority.