Final Pilot Projects Announced for NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory

(December 16, 2024) Realizing practical advantages from quantum-scale phenomena has been a long-sought milestone in quantum information science. The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced six pilot projects to bridge scientific gaps between current quantum technological capabilities and those needed to fully harness quantum properties of energy and matter for…

read more

NIST Releases Draft Report on Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards for Public Comment

(November 12, 2024) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an initial public draft report on transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. This report describes NIST’s expected approach to transitioning from quantum-vulnerable cryptographic algorithms to post-quantum digital signature algorithms and key-establishment schemes. It identifies existing quantum-vulnerable cryptographic…

read more

NIH Webinars on Quantum Technology Prize Challenges

NIH NCATs logo

(November 1, 2024) The Quantum Biomedical Innovations and Technologies (Qu-BIT) Program has announced that Informational webinars for the NIH Quantum Sensing Technology Prize Challenge and the NIH Quantum Computing Prize Challenge will be held on November 13th. In these webinars the following will be covered: (1) Technological Background, (2) Challenge…

read more

DOE Announces funding for Quantum Computing for Novel Chemistry and Materials Science Simulations

(October 24, 2024) The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy has announced a new program that will pioneer novel approaches to studying chemistry and materials using quantum computing. The Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program allocates $30 million to support the research and development…

read more