This is a $15,761,037.00 cost plus fixed fee contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for research and development services related to bit-flip suppressed fluxonium gates for high-threshold error correction. The contract has an ultimate completion date of November 30, 2027. This contract is not set aside. Northrop Grumman will be performing the work at its facility in Linthicum Heights, MD. The contract has several subcontractors including Tektronix, Inc. for personal safety equipment, Holzworth Instrumentation Inc. for test equipment, Northwestern University for research services, and Apct, Inc. for printed circuit board manufacturing. The research and development being conducted under this contract aligns with the U.S. Army's efforts to advance quantum computing capabilities, particularly in the areas of modular quantum gates, high-performance qubits, fast control and readout schemes, and mitigating noise in solid-state spin and superconducting qubit systems.
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