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UNCLASSIFIED / / P@R-OPREGEHE SECON Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology The Defense Intelligence Reference Document provides non-substantive but authoritative reference information related to intelligence topics or methodologies. Prepared by: (b)(3):10 USC 424 Defense Intelligence Agency Author: (b)(6) COPYRIGHT WARNING: Further dissemination of the photographs in this publication Is not authorized. This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Defense Intelligence Agency, [(by3):10 USC 424_——s—S=«d|Ad vanced…

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UNCLASSIFIED / /POT@OPPTCE-USE-ONE Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology Summary Powerful onboard computing hardware is a desired option for future space travel. Without large data processing capability, the copious amounts of data acquired during flight from astronomical sensors as well as crew and vehicle sensors will need to be sent back to earthbound machines for processing, introducing delays measured in hours for routine calculations. Current commercial computer hardware trajectories in silicon substrate semiconductors are not likely to produce a radi…

UNCLASSIFIED / /POPROPPECEEU6E-ONE These will not be the fastest systems in the astro-arsenal, but self-repair may make them the most robust. UNCLASSIFIED / / P OTe OPEC U6 i-Oiitieeee

UNCLASSIFIED/ -P@R-OFFIGEE-VSEORE INTRODUCTION Computers today are not what they used to be. In the 17 century, a computer was merely a person who performs computations. In this sense, the first computers were universally programmable and were ultimately utilizing organic (DNA) hardware architecture. The modern sense of a computer as a machine that manipulates input to produce deterministic output emerged from the work of Turing in the 1930s. A Turing machine consists of four parts: tape containing cells of symbols, read head, action table, and state register. In operation, the state register …