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Month: April 2021

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DOE QIS Fusion Awards Cover
DOE / QIS / R&D Funding Opportunities

DOE Announces $11 Million for Research on QIS for Fusion Energy Sciences

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11 million for ten projects in Quantum Information Science (QIS) with relevance to fusion and plasma science. Fusion energy research seeks to harness …

LPS Qubit Collaboratory
Centers / Infrastructure / R&D Funding Opportunities / Workforce

LPS Qubit Collaboratory Looks to Accelerate Learning of Quantum Information Concepts

There is a pressing need in Quantum Information Science & Technology (QIST) for new and broader talent. One innovation may be in developing approaches to teaching QIST concepts at multiple …

DOD Cover
Centers / Quantum Sensing

Defense Department Launches Center of Excellence in Advanced Quantum Sensing

On March 2, 2021, the Department of Defense (DoD), through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), launched a $7.5 million Center of Excellence …

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21033/nsf21033.jsp
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NSF Organizes Special Webinar for DCL: “Advancing Quantum Education and Workforce Development”

Next Tuesday, April 27; 1-2:30 PM ET NSF will hold a webinar addressing some of the programs managed by EHR that are now opened to Quantum Information Science and Engineering. …

BAA for ARO nextNEQST
Quantum Computing / R&D Funding Opportunities

ARO and LPS release BAA for the Next New and Emerging Qubit Science & Technology

The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) in collaboration with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) is soliciting proposals for research in the next New and Emerging Qubit Science and Technology …

NIST Count Single Photons
Quantum Networking / Quantum Sensing

NIST Researchers Take Counting Single Photons to an Unprecedented Rate

In high-end 21st century communications, information travels in the form of a stream of light pulses typically traveling through fiber optic cables. Each pulse can be as faint as a single …

DOE Quantum Network Announcement
DOE / 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 …

LPS Qubit Collaboratory
Centers / Infrastructure / Quantum Computing / R&D Funding Opportunities

Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) launches the LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC)

Today the National Security Agency’s Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) launched the LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC), a Quantum Information Science research center in support of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative. …

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 …

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