IBM announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Parsons to offer a new national airspace management system as part of the US air traffic control modernization project.
Parsons, already a partner of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for nearly 50 years, notes that it has participated in the design, construction, and management of more than 450 airports in 40 countries.
IBM, a long-standing supplier to the US federal government, plans to contribute its technological expertise to streamline public services and improve resource efficiency.
The IT group says the initiative is in line with the vision of President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who recently called for a complete overhaul of the National Airspace System (NAS).
The project is supposed to favor an open approach, relying on different suppliers, to enable the FAA to integrate the latest technological innovations and adapt its systems.
In addition, IBM announced that it has continued its advance in the quantum field by unveiling, in partnership with the Japanese research laboratory Riken, the first IBM Quantum System Two deployed outside the United States.
The quantum computer, equipped with the 156-qubit IBM Heron processor, is now co-located with Fugaku, one of the world's most powerful classical supercomputers.
This project, supported by the Japanese organization NEDO, which is part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, marks a new step in the integration of quantum and classical technologies.
IBM Heron has a two-qubit error rate ten times lower than the previous generation and a tenfold increase in execution speed, reaching 250,000 CLOPS.
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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is one of the world's leading computer services companies. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- cognitive solutions and transaction processing software development (43.2%);
- IT services (33%): consulting (management of logistic chains, financial performance, CRM, human resources, etc.), application management, systems integration, cloud computing, hosting, technical support services, etc.;
- sale of IT infrastructure (22.3%): hybrid IT infrastructure solutions, microcomputers, servers, peripheral devices, networks, data storage equipment, etc.;
- financing of computer equipment (1.1%);
- other (0.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (40.1%), Americas (9.7%), Europe-Middle East-Africa (31%) and Asia-Pacific (19.2%).
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