This is a $749,921 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Flightprofiler, LLC, a veteran-owned small business, under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The contract is for the development of quantum computing-based supply chain inventory forecasting solutions. This Phase II STTR award continues Flightprofiler's work with AFRL in advancing quantum computing applications for the U.S. Air Force. The contract has a total small...
QC Ware Corp, doing business as QC Ware, was awarded a definitive contract valued at $339,300 by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver the Q-MEANS: Quantum Advantage for Clustering and Classification project. Under this firm fixed price contract, QC Ware will provide quantum-enabled machine learning services and software to support the Air Force's research into clustering and classification algorithms with potential quantum advantages. The contract was...
This federal contract award is for the "ASSEMBLY OF TOPOLOGICAL QUBITS INTO A REGISTER" under the AFWERX AF193-T010 PROPOSAL F2-13608 program, which is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II research contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The prime contractor is Streamline Automation LLC, doing business as C3 Propulsion, a limited liability company that specializes in commercialized advanced technologies, including...
This is a Small Business set-aside contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Seeqc, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of advanced quantum and superconducting electronics. The $1,499,887.00 contract is for the development of "Highly Manufacturable Fluxonium Qubits at 300mm Wafer Scale", a critical technology for quantum computing. This STTR Phase II research contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a completion date of September 1, 2023. Seeqc, based in...
The U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center has awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase III contract valued at $1,606,918.29 to Quantum Research Sciences LLC, a veteran-owned small business. The contract is for the development of a Quantum Computing Forecasting Tool to support the Air Force's pursuit of an operational quantum computing capability for inventory management, as outlined in the company's technical proposal. This definitive, firm-fixed-price contract is set aside for...
This is a $109,949.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Quoherent, Inc., a small business, for a STTR Phase I research project on "Quantum Instruction Set for Topological Insulator Quantum Processors". The contract has a completion date of March 12, 2024. As an STTR Phase I award, this contract is focused on the early-stage research and development of quantum computing technologies related to topological insulators. The Air Force's...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a definitive, cost-no-fee contract to International Business Machines Corp (IBM) for $1,250,000.00 to develop Quantum Computing Algorithms for Decision Making Under Uncertainty. The contract has a completion date of December 31, 2020 and does not have a set-aside designation. IBM is a prime contractor that has received other federal awards for quantum computing, research and development, and machine learning services...
This cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at $7.37 million was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to Coldquanta, Inc., doing business as Infleqtion, to achieve a proof of principle using a quantum optimization algorithm on a noisy intermediate-scale quantum device to solve an optimization problem as part of the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices program. Major subcontractors include the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Chicago, Tufts...
The U.S. government awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Planette Analytics Inc. for the development of QubitCast, a quantum-inspired environmental forecasting system. The contract, valued at $149,720, was awarded on September 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026. The civilian federal agency funding this effort operates through a Shared Services Center model. As a Total Small Business set-aside, this contract is reserved exclusively for...
This federal contract award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Atlantic Quantum Corp, a small business, is for the development of supporting infrastructure for fluxonium quantum processors. The $109,662 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract will advance superconducting qubit technology and quantum computing capabilities. This work builds on a prior $1.2 million STTR Phase II contract awarded to Atlantic Quantum Corp for high fidelity baseband control hardware for protected quantum...