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NEWS Year: 2021

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DOE Quantum Network Announcement
Quantum Networking / R&D Funding Opportunities

Department of Energy to Provide $25 Million toward Development of a Quantum Internet

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $25 million for basic research toward the development of a quantum internet. The objective of today’s announcement is to …

MURI FY2022 Cover Page
Quantum Computing / Quantum Networking / Quantum Sensing / R&D Funding Opportunities

DOD releases funding announcement for FY2022 MURIs, several focused around QIS

A recent Funding Announcement Opportunity (FOA) was released for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) awards. This year’s MURI announcement …

NSF’s Center for Quantum Networks [Image courtesy CQN]
Centers / NQCO Letters / NQI / Quantum Networking

The State of Quantum – Highlighting the NSF Center for Quantum Networks

The State of Quantum Roughly each month I write “from” a different research center about the NQCO’s progress coordinating Quantum Information Science (QIS) activities. Learn more about the NSF Center …

Quantum Benchmarking
Quantum Computing / R&D Funding Opportunities

DARPA Announces New Program to Quantify Utility of Quantum Computers

Although universal fault-tolerant quantum computers – with millions of physical quantum bits (or qubits) – may be a decade or two away, quantum computing research continues apace. It has been …

Sandia Labs SCOUT
Infrastructure / Quantum Computing

DOE open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public

Quantum computers are poised to become major technological drivers over the coming decades. But to get there, scientists need to experiment with quantum machines that relatively few universities or companies …

Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage Quantum Computing Summer School
Quantum Computing / Workforce

DOE Quantum Research Center Announces Quantum Computing Summer School

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has established five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers.  These centers will accelerate the transformational advances in basic science and quantum-based …

Quantum Networking / R&D Funding Opportunities

FOA: Entanglement Management and Control In Transparent Optical Quantum Network

The DOE Office of Science program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) announces its interest in entanglement management and control in transparent optical quantum communications networks. Recently, tremendous progress has …

QED-C

Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) appoints new Executive Director

ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 15, 2021 – The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) today announced the appointment of its new executive director, Celia Merzbacher, effective immediately. Merzbacher has served as deputy director since 2019 and is taking over from Joseph Broz, who led the consortium …

Workforce

Defense Department’s Engineers Week highlights efforts to develop QIS engineering workforce

Principal Director for Quantum Science in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Dr. Paul Lopata, discusses the opportunities for quantum science to support defense department …

QISE / Quantum Networking

Researchers at DOE’s ORNL and collaborators realize quantum communications milestone using light

A team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, along with external collaborators, has taken an important step toward developing efficient quantum communications networks that connect …

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  • Department of Energy to Provide $25 Million toward Development of a Quantum Internet
    Department of Energy to Provide $25 Million toward Development of a Quantum Internet
    April 16, 2021
  • DOD releases funding announcement for FY2022 MURIs, several focused around QIS
    DOD releases funding announcement for FY2022 MURIs, several focused around QIS
    April 9, 2021
  • The State of Quantum – Highlighting the NSF Center for Quantum Networks
    The State of Quantum – Highlighting the NSF Center for Quantum Networks
    April 7, 2021
  • DARPA Announces New Program to Quantify Utility of Quantum Computers
    DARPA Announces New Program to Quantify Utility of Quantum Computers
    April 5, 2021
  • DOE open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public
    DOE open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public
    March 31, 2021

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