Purchase Order FA875020P1711
Award Date
6/16/20
Potential Completion Date
11/16/20
Potential Value
$148K
Federal Agency
Air Force Research Laboratory
Awardee
QC Ware Corp
Ultimate Awardee
Not listed
NAICS Category
541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Federal Contract Vehicle
Set-Aside Type
Total Small Business
Extent Competed
Full and Open Competition after exclusion of sources
Major Defense Program
Not listed
Pricing Type
Firm Fixed Price
Place of Performance
Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
Solicitation Procedures
Negotiated Proposal / Quote
Number Of Offers Received
16
Legislative Mandate
Not listed
National Interest Action
Not listed
Research Type
STTR Phase I
Primary Consortia Member
Not listed
Similar Awards
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...
The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $150,000.00 Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase I research contract to Quera Computing Incorporated, a for-profit small business, to develop scalable photonic control systems to address interconnect bottlenecks for scalable quantum computers. This contract is set aside for small businesses. Quera Computing Incorporated has previously conducted research on quantum computing technologies for the Defense Advanced Research...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $149,981.00 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I purchase order contract to Quera Computing Incorporated, a small business, for research and development of hardware-guided near-term quantum algorithms and gate designs. The contract work is being performed in Boston, Massachusetts. Quera Computing Incorporated has previously conducted quantum computing research for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air...
This is a $1,661,255.79 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) to Quantum Research Sciences LLC, a veteran-owned small business, for the development of a Quantum Computing Forecasting Tool. The contract is designated as a Small Business set-aside and is a Phase III Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research effort. Quantum Research Sciences LLC has a history of securing SBIR and STTR contracts with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Troop...
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...
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 Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $21,100,244.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract to Qubitekk, Inc. to perform research and development on quantum networking to establish secure and robust systems for the U.S. Air Force. This contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III and has a period of performance through February 18, 2028. The contract is not set aside for a specific business type. Qubitekk, Inc. is a for-profit...
The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $149,503 firm fixed price purchase order to Technergetics, LLC, a small business, to conduct STTR Phase I research for the SINQ: System for Integrating and Networking of Quantum program. This contract is part of the Department of Defense's efforts to advance quantum computing capabilities. Technergetics has previously supported the Air Force on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics projects under other...
This contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Rigetti & Co, LLC, doing business as Rigetti Quantum Computing. The $148,639 firm fixed-price purchase order is for Systems-Driven Component Development for Photon-Superconductor Multi-Node Quantum Networks under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Rigetti & Co, a quantum computing company, is the prime contractor and will perform the work at its Albany, California...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $1,499,785.00 firm-fixed-price Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract to Qubitekk, Inc. for the development of quantum entanglement technology on drones. Qubitekk, a small business manufacturer, will provide quantum networking components and systems, including quantum encryption technology, narrow-spectrum two-photon sources, and bi-photon sources, to support quantum computing and communications research and...