Attachment_F_Proposal_Template_Vol._2-Cost_Summary_Spreadsheet_-_ONISQ.xlsx

This document contains a cost summary spreadsheet template and details of a federal contract opportunity notice for the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices program. The cost summary spreadsheet template requires proposers to provide total effort costs broken down by major cost items including labor, materials, travel, consultants, subcontracts, other direct charges, indirect costs, and any proposed fee. The federal contract opportunity seeks innovative research proposals to establish that Quantum Information Processing using Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices has an advantage over classical methods for solving real-world combinatorial optimization problems. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting these proposals to investigate approaches enabling revolutionary science and technology advances in devices and NISQ systems, excluding evolutionary improvements. Proposed research should explore the power of hybrid optimization approaches and identify problem instances where quantum information processing is likely to have the biggest impact.