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Year: 2021

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DOE / 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 …

DOE / 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 …

Request for Information Related to High Energy Physics and Space-Based Astrophysics
DOE / RFI

RFI on Space-Based Astrophysics Includes Quantum Sensors

DOE and NASA Request for Information (RFI) includes query about possible “experiments on the ISS that make use of quantum sensor technologies and capabilities in the HEP, APD, or BPS …

AFRL measures first superconducting quantum bits (qubit), first-ever demo for a DOD service lab
QISE / Quantum Computing / Quantum Networking

AFRL measures first superconducting quantum bits (qubit), first-ever demo for a DOD service lab

ROME, N.Y. – Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate here have measured the energy relaxation and coherence times of superconducting quantum bits (qubits), two important characteristics that …

AFOSR Funding Opportunity: International partnership to spark bold new quantum research
International / R&D Funding Opportunities

AFOSR International QIS Funding Opportunity

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), and the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & …

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QIS / Quantum Networking

A Coordinated Approach to Quantum Networking Research

The NSTC Subcommittee on QIS, with input from its interagency working group on quantum networking, released A Coordinated Approach to Quantum Networking Research in January 2021. This strategy document offers …

QISE / Quantum Networking / R&D Funding Opportunities

NSF Solicitation on Quantum Interconnect Challenges

The NSF Quantum Interconnect Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QuIC – TAQS) program is designed to support interdisciplinary teams that will explore highly innovative, original, and potentially transformative ideas …

Cover of the FY 2021 NQI Annual Report
NQIA / QIS Budget

Release of the National Quantum Initiative Supplement To The President’s FY 2021 Budget

(Jan. 14, 2020) The National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act became Public Law 115-368 in December 2018 to accelerate American leadership in quantum information science and technology. This is the first Annual …

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