The National University of Singapore received a three-year, $375,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct basic research for the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. Under the grant, the National University of Singapore will perform research titled "Scalable AWG with Fast Feedback Option for Medium Scale Quantum Processor" from March 2021 through March 2024. The research aims to develop technologies relevant to...
The National University of Singapore received a $374,117 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund basic research for the proposal "Low Noise Telecom Quantum Receivers for Aerospace Applications" from September 2020 through March 2024. The research aims to develop quantum receiver technologies with applications for aerospace systems, maintaining...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $376,080 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop a cryogenic probe station and control electronics for measurement of novel Josephson qubit devices and circuits. The grant funding will support the acquisition of cryogenic probe station equipment and electronics to allow for measurement of superconducting quantum bits and...
The federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $119,843, was made by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports a research project titled "(STEM) IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION TO PREPARE THE QUANTUM-ENABLED WORKFORCE IN QUANTUM SENSING" at Georgetown University. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, and the research aims to advance scientific understanding...
This Project Grant award, valued at $199,999.00, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Cornell University. The award supports fundamental and applied scientific research in quantum computing, with the goal of advancing capabilities in this critical technology area for national defense. The funded research, titled "Quantum Programs for Simulating Open Systems", aims to develop novel quantum simulation...
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $1,665,823 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant supports foundational and applied research across scientific and technical domains critical to national security. Key focus areas include quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, and other strategic research to advance fundamental knowledge and address long-term national security...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop and demonstrate entanglement distribution among six remote quantum nodes through cold atomic ensembles and photon polarizations. This research seeks to maintain Air Force technological superiority in quantum information sciences and prevent technological surprise from adversaries...
This $499,872 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) supports research and development of modeling and simulation tools to predict the performance of semiconductor quantum bits (qubits) for quantum computing circuits. The key objectives include: 1) detailed device physics modeling to simulate qubit circuits, 2) qubit calibration methods based on device physics insights from...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,750,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to support research on trapped ions and neutral atoms for quantum computing. The prime awardee, Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp (GTARC), will collaborate with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ethz) to develop the core components required for a quantum computer using a novel trapping method. The project aims to...
This $343,437 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) was issued to Texas Tech University System to support research on two-dimensional topological materials for tunable quantum states and topological antiferromagnetic systems for applications in quantum technology. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. This research aims to advance scientific understanding and...