The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $592,154 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on September 1, 2022 to support research under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) through August 31, 2023. The grant funding will support the development of a "QUANTUM GAS TWEEZERS PLATFORM" to conduct research relevant to the Air Force's mission of maintaining technological superiority in scientific...
This $210,000 Project Grant, awarded on September 5, 2024 by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in conducting research on "FIBER-COUPLED ON-CHIP THZ SPECTROSCOPY OF VAN DER WAALS MATERIALS". The research aims to develop advanced measurement tools and conduct scientific investigations in areas critical to national defense capabilities, such as quantum...
The Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a $800,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630). The grant will fund fundamental and unclassified research on probing driven quantum gases and enhancing professional development pathways at a minority serving institution over a 4-year period from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2027. As a public research university and...
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) was awarded a $320,146 Project Grant from the U.S. Army under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) on February 1, 2024. Through this funding, UCSB will conduct fundamental and unclassified research across diverse scientific areas, including quantum computing, photonics, materials science, biotechnology, climate research, and defense-related basic research. As a leading research university, UCSB has extensive expertise in these...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $378,828 project grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant, titled "DRIVEN-DISSIPATIVE QUANTUM SYSTEMS UNDER A MICROSCOPE," is for a 5-year period from September 30, 2024, to September 29, 2029. The project aims to conduct fundamental and applied scientific research in the area of quantum computing, with a focus on...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1,156,883 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant provides funding from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to conduct a direct test of the quantum statistics theorem using well-separated indistinguishable particles. UC Berkeley, as the prime awardee, will perform...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $375,213 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory on May 1, 2021 to complete work by April 30, 2023. The grant funding supports magnetic imaging of two-dimensional quantum materials to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. The University of California, Berkeley will conduct this...
The University of Southern California received a $159,700 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 conduct measurement of indistinguishability of single photons emitted from on-chip integrable highly spectrally uniform novel semiconductor quantum dots in spatially-ordered arrays. The grant period runs from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research...
The Air Force awarded a USD 204,682 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Arizona State University (ASU) for the project "ULTRA LOW-OVERHEAD PHOTONIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION USING A SQUEEZING-AMPLIFIED WEAK CROSS-KERR MODULATION". The award date was June 1, 2024 with a completion date of September 30, 2025. ASU subsequently issued a USD 709,071 sub-award to the University of Maryland, College Park to support the research. The Project Grant...
This $590,442 Project Grant was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant, titled "CRYOGENIC SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING TRAPPED-ELECTRON QUANTUM COMPUTING", will fund research and development of a cryogenic system to support investigations into quantum computing technologies utilizing trapped electrons. The award period runs from February 1, 2025 to January...