This is a $249,993.33 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) to Quantum Catalyzer, LLC, a limited liability company based in Riverdale, Maryland. The contract is for the development of a portable, highly efficient diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometer tailored to detecting person-borne improvised explosive devices (PBIEDs). This work is being performed under the DoD SBIR 24.4 Program Broad Agency...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to Quantcad LLC, a small disadvantaged, woman-owned business located in Iowa City, Iowa. The $899,999.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of high-sensitivity isotopically-purified all-electrical chip-scale atomic magnetometers. Quantcad LLC specializes in quantum noise research and advanced quantum sensor technologies, and has previously...
This is a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Quantum Design, Inc. for the development of low-cost, high-sensitivity superconducting magnetometers and gradiometers. The $749,912 firm fixed-price contract has a completion date of June 12, 2022 and was set aside for small businesses. Quantum Design, Inc. is a private corporation that provides specialized laboratory equipment and services,...
This is a $166,440 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Quantcad LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business. The contract is for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project "All-Optical Magnetometer for Extreme Low-Temperature Environments Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamonds". The contract has a total small business set-aside...
This is a $175,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Maybell Quantum Industries, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of specialized equipment for quantum computing and advanced technology research. The contract is a firm-fixed-price purchase order that was set aside for small businesses. Maybell Quantum Industries has previously received SBIR Phase II and Other Transaction Agreement awards from the Department of...
This is a $1,796,249.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Twinleaf LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for the development of an "Accurate and Reliable Quantum Vector Magnetometer" with a performance period ending on July 1, 2025. The original solicitation was issued under DARPA's Pipelined Reasoning Of Verifiers Enabling Robust Systems (PROVERS) program, which seeks to...
This is a $171,482.87 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Qdir, Inc., a small for-profit technology company, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for Phase I research and development to advance quantum dot technology for high-performance infrared photodetection. The award is set aside for small businesses and has an ultimate completion date of April 20, 2023. Qdir, Inc. is a...
This is a $159,908 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Quantcad LLC, a small disadvantaged business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of high-sensitivity isotopically-purified all-electrical chip-scale atomic magnetometers. This research aims to advance NASA's scientific understanding and exploration by providing a quantum sensor capable of...
This is a Small Business set-aside contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Atlantic Quantum Corp, a small for-profit technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The $1,799,976 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of high-fidelity readout using ultralow-loss quantum amplifiers to support fault-tolerant quantum processors. The contract is part of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II program, which builds upon previous Phase I...
This is a federal contract award to Coldquanta, Inc. (doing business as Infleqtion), a small business manufacturer, for the development of broadband self-calibrating electric field sensors based on alkali Rydberg atoms. The $154,925.02 fixed-price contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract has a performance period ending on October 31, 2016. Coldquanta/Infleqtion has...