Quantum computing is the Holy Grail of processing. The analogy is apt because, like that relic of legend, no one is sure exactly what it looks like but we all know it has awesome power.
The goal of the accelerator is to bring industry, government and academia together to integrate SDA computer systems to "fully leverage" data from myriad sources across the Defense Department, the Intelligence Community, other government agencies, allies and commercial firms a seemingly unsolvable problem that has bedeviled the Pentagon for decades.