The University of Chicago was awarded a $657,882 project grant by the Department of Defense under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) with a performance period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2025. This federal grant supports the university's foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security, including areas such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, robotics, defense...
The University of Chicago received a $568,770 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory dated February 1, 2023 with a completion date of January 31, 2024. The award is provided through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the "IQCAAP - INDIVIDUAL QUBIT CONTROL FOR ATOM ARRAY PROCESSORS" project. The grant will fund research at the University of Chicago to develop techniques for individual qubit...
This federal Project Grant award for $534,095.00 was provided by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The award supports the University of Chicago in building a phonon-based quantum computer, with a performance period from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029. The University of Chicago is a renowned private research institution that has extensive expertise in delivering cutting-edge scientific research and technological solutions to...
This Project Grant award of $1,161,402.00, provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports research on "Dissipative Synthesis and Distillation of Remote Entanglement." The primary awardee is the University of Illinois, and the project involves two sub-awards to the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to collaborate on this research. The performance period for this grant...
This federal Project Grant award for $133,000.00 was provided by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The award, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027, supports research on electronic coupling in superlattices of HgTe quantum dots, including organization, transport, and spectroscopy. The research will be conducted by the University of Chicago, a renowned private research university with...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Defense (CFDA 12.431 - Basic Scientific Research) provides $595,374 to The University of Iowa to conduct research focused on "ROBUST GENERATION AND TRANSFER OF MULTIPHOTON STATES USING REDUCED SYMMETRY QUANTUM PHOTONICS". The research seeks to advance fundamental knowledge and develop defense-relevant capabilities in the field of quantum photonics, with potential applications in areas such as computing and information technology. The...
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....
The University of Chicago will optimize qubit performance in diamond with strain engineering under a three-year, $664,203 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The grant is part of the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through basic and applied scientific research relevant to its needs. Under the award beginning September 15, 2022, the University will conduct...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $749,995 Project Grant by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the "SMART STACK: SCALABLE, MODULAR, ADAPTABLE, RECONFIGURABLE, ERROR-TARGETED APPROACHES TO QUANTUM STACK DESIGN" project. The funding will advance research and development of innovative quantum computing technologies from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. This grant aligns with the Office of Science's mission to...
This $2,125,000 federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), supports foundational and applied research across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security. The award recipient, the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside), will leverage its extensive research capabilities to advance scientific knowledge and technological development in areas such as quantum...