Project Grant FA9550261B240
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology a $250,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for "The Coupling-Arm Qubit for Scalable, High-Fidelity Entangling Gates," effective December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2028. This fundamental research initiative supports the Air Force's objective to maintain technological superiority in quantum computing systems relevant to national...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Georgia TECH Research Corp, through its Office of Sponsored Programs at Georgia Institute of Technology, was awarded $345,000 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on September 22, 2025. The award, which extends through September 21, 2028, supports research on "Quantum Sensing of Moire Quantum Matter" to be conducted at the Atlanta, Georgia location. This project contributes to the Air...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a $300,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for the period August 15, 2025 through August 14, 2028. The award supports research on multipartite entanglement in on-chip scalable photonic networks enabled by spatially ordered unique single quantum dot quantum emitters. This research advances quantum information sciences capabilities...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Arizona received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), effective December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2028. The award funds research titled "Tuning Excitonic Ferroelectricity in Moire Synaptic Transistors for High Precision In-Memory-Sensor Computing," as detailed in the grantee's technical proposal dated June 20, 2024. This research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Arizona received a $600,000 project grant from the Department of Defense (Defense or Civilian designation) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), awarded September 30, 2025, with completion targeted for September 29, 2028. The award supports research on "Atomic Ensembles with Dynamic and Quantum Boundaries," a fundamental science initiative aligned with the program's objective to advance long-term national...
- This Project Grant award for $378,828.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Specifically, the award funds a project titled "Driven-Dissipative Quantum Systems Under a Microscope" to be conducted by the University of California, Berkeley. The research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Arizona State University (ASU) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) for research on "Interfacial Bond Exchange in Dynamic Covalent Polymer Network Composites." The three-year project, which commenced on September 1, 2025 and concludes on August 31, 2028, will be conducted at ASU's Tempe, Arizona campus. This research initiative supports the Air...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Washington University a $150,000 Project Grant effective July 15, 2026, through July 14, 2028, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on electron trapping mechanisms and quantum gate design on solid neon surfaces. This fundamental research initiative supports the Air Force's objective to maintain technological superiority in quantum systems and prevent technological surprise...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Cornell University's Office of Sponsored Programs received a $325,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029. The award, titled "New Qubits: GLIMPSE—Andreev Spin Qubits in Planar Germanium," supports fundamental research in quantum computing systems at the Cornell campus in Ithaca, NY. This project contributes to the Air Force's...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $150,873 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct theoretical research on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) Andreev Spin Qubits bound to Josephson vortices. The award, effective December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2027, supports fundamental research aligned with Air Force priorities in quantum systems and...
Arizona State University's Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Administration (Orspa) received a $473,465 Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), effective August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2028. The project, titled "Demonstrating Loss-Tolerant Amplification of Cross-Kerr Interactions that Paves the Way for Deterministic Quantum Information Processing," addresses fundamental research in quantum computing and quantum information systems—a priority area for Air Force technological advancement. The research focuses on advancing quantum amplification techniques that could enable more robust and deterministic quantum computing architectures, directly supporting the Department of the Air Force's mission to maintain technological superiority in emerging quantum technologies. The award supports basic research conducted by ASU faculty and research teams, consistent with the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program's objective to fund foundational science that prevents technological surprise and maintains research infrastructure. No sub-award recipients are identified in the award documentation. The project duration of two years reflects a standard timeline for fundamental research grants in this $100,000–$400,000 funding range under the program, which emphasizes peer-reviewed scientific investigation across materials science, quantum systems, and computational methods aligned with Air Force modernization priorities.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $473.5k | 7/21/26 |