
Digital Catapult and NQCC Advance Third QTAP Cohort with Eleven Sector Leaders for UK Industrial Quantum Applications
Digital Catapult has selected eleven organisations for the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme, delivered with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s SparQ programme. The group includes the first financial services participants and projects spanning healthcare diagnostics, rail safety, logistics and defence. Participants will explore combinatorial optimisation and quantum machine learning with access to ORCA Computing hardware through February 2027. The initiative supports practical adoption aligned with the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy.