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Quantum Cyber adds retired Major General Rosende to its board

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October 14, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Quantum Cyber has appointed Major General (Ret.) Alberto C. Rosende to its Board of Directors, tasking the former commander with overseeing the completion of its Bridgeport, Connecticut manufacturing facility. Rosende commanded more than 41,000 Soldiers across a seven-state region while leading the 63rd Readiness Division, experience Quantum Cyber plans to use as it scales production of autonomous defense platforms.

“General Rosende’s command experience aligns with where our Company is scaling,” said CEO David Lazar, “at the intersection of facilities, logistics, maintenance, large-force readiness, and the industrial base that supports the warfighter.” Rosende, a recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal, affirmed the company is.

Rosende’s 63rd Readiness Division Command Experience

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Alberto C. This extensive command experience, spanning California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, directly informs his new role at Quantum Cyber, where he will focus on completing the company’s Bridgeport, Connecticut manufacturing facility.

Rosende’s prior leadership included responsibility for equipment maintenance and human resources, skills now expected to address supply chain challenges in the production of autonomous drones. The scope of Rosende’s military career is reflected in the honors he received, including the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star, demonstrating a commitment to operational excellence that Quantum Cyber intends to integrate into its manufacturing processes.

Beyond the 63rd Readiness Division, his experience extends to serving as Chief of Staff of the U.S, the company says. Army Reserve Command at Fort Bragg and Commanding General of the 1st Mission Support Command in Puerto Rico, providing a broad understanding of large-scale logistical operations.

Quantum Cyber specifically tasked Rosende with streamlining the inbound supply of materials, components and sub-assemblies for drone production, a critical step in establishing a vertically integrated, U.S.-based defense platform. “But we are also asking him to do something more specific,” Lazar continued, and Rosende himself expressed enthusiasm for the alignment between his experience and the company’s goals, stating, “I am honored to join the Board, and to help ensure that the Company’s Bridgeport manufacturing facility is delivered on schedule and that the materials, components, and sub-assemblies required to build Quantum Cyber’s autonomous drones flow reliably into that line.”.

General Rosende’s command experience sits exactly where our Company is scaling, at the intersection of facilities, logistics, maintenance, large-force readiness, and the industrial base that supports the warfighter.

David Lazar, Chief Executive Officer of Quantum Cyber
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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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