This is a $2,425,290 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Murray Associates of Utica LLC for the development of quantum information sciences. The contract supports research and development in areas such as quantum algorithms and computing, memory-node quantum networking, quantum information processing, and superconducting hybrid quantum platforms. This award is part of a broader Quantum Information Sciences Broad Agency...
This is a $1,237,155.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Qunnect, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Brooklyn, New York. The contract is for the "Reliable Entanglement Verification for Scalable and Deployable Quantum Networks" project, which falls under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract has a completion date of February 23, 2027 and is a total small business...
This is a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Murray Associates of Utica LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the development of heterogeneous quantum information sciences. The $4,843,844.00 contract supports AFRL's Information Directorate and its mission to advance quantum computing, communication, and information processing technologies through research and development in five key technical areas: Quantum...
This is a $10,835,118.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Psiquantum, Corp. to integrate state-of-the-art optical phase shifters into a photonics platform for quantum computing applications. The contract aims to validate quantum circuit capabilities and explore their application beyond quantum computing for other Air Force use cases. The contract is part of a broader AFRL Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on Quantum Information Sciences,...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $147,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Qunnect, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Brooklyn, New York. The contract is for the delivery of an Automated Polarization Compensator (APC) and an Entangled Photon Source for quantum network links. The APC and Entangled Photon Source are specialized quantum networking technologies that were sole-sourced to Qunnect, as the government determined their Qu-APC and...
This is a $1,499,860.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Rigetti & Co, LLC, a small business based in Berkeley, California, doing business as Rigetti Quantum Computing. The contract is for the development of "SYSTEMS-DRIVEN COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT FOR PHOTON-SUPERCONDUCTOR MULTI-NODE QUANTUM NETWORKS" under a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research effort. This contract award supports AFRL's science and technology...
This is a $1,248,990.00 Small Business set-aside contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Atlantic Quantum Corp, a small technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of high-fidelity baseband control hardware for protected quantum bits under the STTR Phase II program. This contract builds upon Atlantic Quantum Corp's previous STTR Phase I work with AFRL, demonstrating the company's expertise in advancing critical quantum...
This is a $21,100,244.00 federal contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Qubitekk, Inc., a small business manufacturer of quantum computing and communications components and systems located in Vista, California. The objective of this Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract is to perform research and development in quantum networking to establish secure and robust systems for the United States Air Force (USAF) and AFRL. This contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $22,458,948 firm-fixed-price contract to Psiquantum, Corp., a for-profit organization specializing in quantum computing technologies. The contract is for the establishment of state-of-the-art integrated photonics for quantum computing applications, with a completion date of March 28, 2024. This contract was issued under AFRL's Quantum Information Sciences Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), which seeks to advance quantum algorithms and computing,...
This is a $292,266 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to the prime contractor Quantum Research International Inc., a for-profit company that provides complex professional services to U.S. federal agencies. The contract, titled "Distributed, Collaborative and Cooperative (DC2)," does not have a set-aside designation. Quantum Research has been awarded multiple indefinite-delivery vehicles and Federal Supply Schedule contracts to provide...