{"id":271171,"date":"2026-06-12T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/tennessee-takes-a-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology-tennessee-town-city\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:20:12","slug":"tennessee-takes-a-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology-tennessee-town-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/tennessee-takes-a-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology-tennessee-town-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee takes a quantum leap toward emerging technology | Tennessee Town &#038; City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ttc.tml1.org\/2026\/06\/12\/tennessee-takes-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology\">Tennessee takes a quantum leap toward emerging technology | Tennessee Town &#038; City<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ttc.tml1.org\/2026\/06\/12\/tennessee-takes-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology\">https:\/\/ttc.tml1.org\/2026\/06\/12\/tennessee-takes-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 09:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"ttc.tml1.org\">ttc.tml1.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By KATE COIL<\/strong><br \/>TT&#038;C Assistant Editor<\/p>\n<p>Forget Silicon Valley. Tennessee leaders expect American\u2019s new Quantum Valley to be in the Volunteer State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leaders in Tennessee\u2019s quantum industry \u2013 including University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC) Quantum Center Director Dr. Rick Mukherjee, EPB of Chattanooga Vice President of Government and Community Relations Evann Freeman, Tennessee Division of TennCare Chief Information Officer Hugh Hale, and Deloitte US Quantum Cyber Readiness Lead Colin Soutar \u2013 discussed how the state is building the future of quantum during the Tennessee Digital Summit panel \u201cThe Future Frontier: Realizing Tennessee\u2019s Quantum Leap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Workers at Chattanooga EPB&#8217;s quantum networking facility are among those leading the way toward the state&#8217;s quantum futre. Already a key partner in the EPB Quantum Network, EPB Has partnered with IonQ finalize the installation of the Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer and is already working to develop practical applications for securing and optimizing the power grid and training EPB Quantum Computing Fellows to build a local quantum-ready workforce. (Photo by EPB)<\/p>\n<p>Based on quantum bits or qubits, quantum technology enables computers to process millions of operations simultaneously. Made through quantum engineering, quantum technology \u2013 including quantum computers and sensors \u2013 can process and calculate at speeds and magnitudes far beyond most average technology, allowing for revolutionary advances in a variety of fields.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quantum technology can handle models, information loads, and complexities more efficiently, sustainably, accurately, and with greater scalability than modern computers. Tennessee is hoping to be on the forefront of this emerging technology, which is also expected to be a major economic engine.<\/p>\n<h5>BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM<\/h5>\n<p>Mukherjee is the first director of the UTC Quantum Center, which was established 18 months ago. While the UTC Center was the first in the state, Mukherjee said similar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ttc.tml1.org\/2026\/06\/12\/tennessee-takes-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee takes a quantum leap toward emerging technology | Tennessee Town &#038; City https:\/\/ttc.tml1.org\/2026\/06\/12\/tennessee-takes-quantum-leap-toward-emerging-technology Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ttc.tml1.org\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/feature-images\/ionq-quantum-office-epb.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-271171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-emerging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271173,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271171\/revisions\/271173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}