The University of Southern California (USC) was awarded a $4,556,387 definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the "QUANTUM BENCHMARKING PROGRAM." The contract has no set-aside designation. The goal of the program is to develop innovative research in quantum benchmarking to quantify the long-term utility of quantum computers. USC is the prime contractor, with subcontractors including the University of Sydney, Riverlane Research Inc., the...
This is a $18,115,081 Definitive Contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Southern California (USC) for the Quantum Augmented Network (QuANET) program. The contract has no set-aside designation. Under this contract, USC will lead the development of quantum-augmented networks that integrate quantum communication capabilities into classical network infrastructures to enhance security and covertness for critical missions and infrastructure....
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $1 million other transaction agreement to the University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants Division, doing business as USC, to support the QUASAR program. QUASAR aims to advance quantum-assisted sampling techniques for machine learning applications. Work will be performed in Dockweiler, California over an 18-month period ending in October 2022. As part of DARPA's portfolio of initiatives exploring emerging...
The University of Southern California (USC) has been awarded a $17,554,040 federal contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase I of an unspecified project. The contract is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type, with a completion date of February 29, 2012. USC, a leading private research university, will leverage its expertise in areas like engineering, computer science, and social sciences to conduct cutting-edge research and provide innovative...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $1,000,000.00 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contract to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The contract, titled "COMPUTING IN SUPERPOSITION USING HIGH DIMENSIONAL VECTORS (SUPER HD)", was awarded on September 17, 2019 and has a completion date of March 17, 2021. The contract is not designated as a set-aside. UC Berkeley, a public research...
The University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants Division, doing business as USC, has been awarded a $1 million other transaction agreement by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct research relating to "INDIRECT: INITIATING DATA-INFORMED INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE ESCALATION WHILE CONFRONTING THREATS." The prime contractor, USC, will perform the work at its Dockweiler, California location over an 18-month period from January 2021...
This is a $4,459,127.00 definitive, cost-no-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Research Division, doing business as IBM, for the "TOPOLOGICAL EXCITATIONS IN ELECTRONICS" project. The award has no set-aside designation. The contract involves research and development work related to quantum computing and related technologies. Key tasks include characterizing quantum conductance plateaus,...
The University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants Division has been awarded a $673,342 cost-no-fee definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct research in scalable all-optical processing remotely. This award is in response to DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) Broad Agency Announcement seeking proposals across multiple topic areas including artificial intelligence, data science, symbiosis, analytics, and cybersecurity....
The University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants Division, doing business as USC, has been awarded a $989,774 Other Transaction Agreement by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform work on the project "Symbolic Math Expressions from Low-Level Logic in Cyber-Physical Systems." The prime contractor, USC, will develop techniques to automatically generate symbolic mathematical expressions from low-level logic specifications of cyber-physical systems...
This is a $15,040,764.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation for a DARPA research project. The contract has a completion date of May 30, 2026 and does not have a set-aside designation. The prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a major defense contractor that specializes in advanced aerospace and defense technologies. The contract includes a $709,071 sub-award to the University of Maryland,...