C12 and Thales Win the 2026 Quantum Effects Hardware Award for QuantumTrack, a Radar Multiple Hypothesis Tracker: What the April arXiv Paper Shows and the TRL 5 Label Does Not

C12 and Thales announced QuantumTrack on September 29, 2026 and took the Quantum Effects Award for quantum computing hardware with a hybrid method for real-time multi-target radar tracking. We read the April 2026 arXiv paper behind it: a carbon nanotube spin-qubit annealer tested in two synthetic tracking scenarios with one and two targets, and a 50 millisecond run time that rests on an active reset not demonstrated on the processor in the cited paper. The release's 100-times speed claim and its TRL 5 label are absent from the paper, so the defense-specific capability for air-defense radars facing saturation attacks sits at rung 3 of the shared ladder until the same scenarios run on physical hardware.