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 federal Project Grant award, valued at $499,872.00 and provided by the U.S. Department of Defense Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), is for the "Modeling Center for Scalable Spin Qubit Technologies" research project under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The overall objective is to develop modeling and simulation tools that can accurately predict the performance of semiconductor qubits in quantum computing circuits....
This $327,788 federal Project Grant awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research to advance quantum simulation and sensing capabilities using alkaline earth atoms. The University of Colorado, Boulder, the grant recipient, will conduct this fundamental research over a 5-year period from September 2024 to September 2029. The research aims to push the boundaries of quantum technologies with potential...
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...
This $157,500 federal Project Grant award, provided by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), supports foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security. The award, granted to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), doing business as the University of Colorado, will fund basic research efforts...
The University of Toronto was awarded a $193,598 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on the "Transport Dynamics of Ultracold Atoms." This 5-year grant, commencing on September 30, 2024, will support fundamental and applied scientific investigations into the complex behaviors and properties of ultracold atomic systems. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of...
This Project Grant award, valued at $3,252,090.00 and awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Research Development and Engineering Command, supports basic scientific research under the DOD Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award funds a multi-institutional research project focused on "Nanoscale Ion Beam Materials Modification for Next-Generation Superconducting Digital Devices." The prime recipient, the Regents of the University of California at Riverside,...
This $610,000 Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), will support experimental and theoretical research to investigate the use of quantum sensors to address unsolved mysteries in fundamental physics. The research team at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) will collaborate with researchers at Laboratoire Aime Cotton in Orsay, France to generate and study the properties of nonclassical...
The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a $599,748 Project Grant to The Washington University under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The grant will fund research collaboration from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 to pursue a topological qubit based on thermal transport of Majorana fermions in Kitaev magnets. The Basic Scientific Research program supports basic research related to improving Army programs and operations. This three-year award will allow the university to...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $615,291.00 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to explore the versatility of ytterbium's 3P2 metastable state for quantum computing applications. The research aims to advance fundamental knowledge in quantum computing, a key focus area for national security. The award, with a performance...