Attachment_A_Abstract_Summary_Slide_Template_-_ONISQ.pptx

This document contains details on a federal contract opportunity from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency regarding the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices program. The goal of the program is to establish whether quantum information processing using noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices has an advantage over classical methods for solving real-world combinatorial optimization problems. The agency seeks innovative research proposals to investigate approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, and noisy intermediate-scale quantum systems for studying combinatorial optimization problems relevant to national security. Proposals should explore the theoretical basis for hybrid optimization approaches and identify problem instances where quantum information processing is likely to have the biggest impact. Research that primarily provides evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice is specifically excluded.