Infleqtion profile
Infleqtion is a Louisville, Colorado quantum sensing and computing company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under INFQ, and it has won a NASA follow-on contract to keep developing the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder.
What Infleqtion does
Infleqtion Sells quantum hardware and software across several lines: quantum computers, quantum optical clocks, RF receivers, inertial sensors and the Superstaq software product, according to the company's release. The NASA award shows one way Infleqtion earns money. A government agency funds development, and Infleqtion builds a subsystem inside a mission that another organization leads.
On QGGPf, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) leads the mission, and Infleqtion designs, matures and integrates the vacuum, laser and control subsystems that hold and measure ultracold rubidium atoms.
The product lines that define the company for research purposes:
- Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf), atomic physics package for the NASA JPL-led mission
- Quantum computers
- Quantum optical clocks
- RF receivers
- Inertial sensors
- Superstaq software
This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.
Infleqtion drone lineup
The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.
No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.
Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.
Recent contracts & awards
A dated log of the specific contracts, orders, funding, and deployments reported for Infleqtion, each tied to its primary source. This is a record of what was announced — a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, so read each source before treating a figure as revenue. No figure appears here unless a source reported it.
- NASA awards Infleqtion (INFQ) $20M follow-on contract for JPL-led Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder
Per an August 27, 2026 Business Wire release, NASA awarded Infleqtion a $20 million follow-on contract to continue its work on the JPL-led Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf): designing and integrating the atomic physics package, building an initial sensor head and electronics engineering development unit, and testing at the Einstein Elevator drop tower in Hannover.
The release says the award brings NASA's total program investment to $40 million, with this phase running through 2027 and a mission launch expected in 2030. Researchers should confirm the figure, obligated amount and period of performance against Infleqtion's SEC filings and NASA/federal award records (e.g., USAspending.gov) rather than treating the announced value as recognized revenue.
StockTitan — original report
Is Infleqtion going public?
Infleqtion trades on the NYSE under the ticker INFQ. Track its periodic reports, insider filings and material-event disclosures through SEC EDGAR, and check NASA and USAspending.gov records for follow-on QGGPf funding.
Where Infleqtion sits in the value chain
Infleqtion is an enabler: it supplies inputs to the companies that build complete systems, so its demand is spread across many platforms instead of concentrated in any single program.
Its disclosed activity spans aerial drones. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand.
Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.
What to watch
The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.
- Whether the QGGPf sensor head and electronics engineering development unit pass drop testing at the Einstein Elevator in Hannover, Germany. That test is the first hardware check named in the release, so a delay there would push back the later flight demonstration.
- How much revenue comes from government development contracts compared with product sales. Infleqtion's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) break this out, and a reader can see from that split whether the company depends on contract funding.
- Whether the inertial sensor and clock lines win defense navigation contracts of their own. Infleqtion's relevance to drones and other uncrewed vehicles is indirect today, because the source text names no drone customer or program.
- Whether NASA keeps funding QGGPf through hardware development and the planned low-Earth-orbit flight demonstration. A follow-on award is a single phase of funding, and each later phase requires another funding decision.
How to research Infleqtion
Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.
| Research question | Where the answer lives | What to look for |
|---|---|---|
| How much of this is really drones? | Segment tables in the annual filing | Whether unmanned systems are reported as their own segment or buried inside a larger one. |
| Is the revenue repeatable? | Revenue-recognition policy and backlog discussion | Recurring sustainment, services, or subscription language versus one-time hardware sales. |
| Is a win real money? | Official DoD contract announcements | Contract type, awarding command, and whether the amount announced is obligated or a ceiling. |
| Can the balance sheet fund the plan? | Liquidity discussion and share-count disclosure | Dilution history and cash runway relative to the manufacturing scale-up being promised. |
- For the QGGPf award terms, Infleqtion's role and the mission timeline, read the Business Wire release as republished on StockTitan. Confirm the dollar value and contract record on USAspending.gov, which lists federal awards by recipient.
- For revenue mix, customer concentration and risk factors, use Infleqtion's filings on SEC EDGAR. The annual and quarterly reports answer questions a press release does not, such as how much revenue comes from government contracts.
- For the mission's science goals and how QGGPf builds on the Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) missions, check NASA JPL, which leads the mission.
- For product specifications on Infleqtion's clocks, RF receivers and inertial sensors, go to the Infleqtion company site. Treat any performance claims there as the company's own, and look for third-party test data or named defense contracts before relying on them.
One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the official record before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.
Infleqtion FAQ
What does Infleqtion do?
Infleqtion Sells quantum hardware and software across several lines: quantum computers, quantum optical clocks, RF receivers, inertial sensors and the Superstaq software product, according to the company's release.
Is Infleqtion publicly traded?
Infleqtion trades as INFQ on NYSE. Listing status is not a quality signal, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell it.
What should investors watch with Infleqtion?
Whether the QGGPf sensor head and electronics engineering development unit pass drop testing at the Einstein Elevator in Hannover, Germany. That test is the first hardware check named in the release, so a delay there would push back the later flight demonstration.
Where can I research Infleqtion directly?
Go to the primary sources: Infleqtion (official site), StockTitan — original report. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.
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