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Happy World Quantum Day! April 14th — or “4.14” — celebrates Planck’s constant (rounded to 3 digits), which is the fundamental constant that sets the tiny size-scale of quantum phenomena. This celebration is a result of an initiative driven by quantum scientists worldwide intended to promote public understanding of quantum…
(April 3, 2025) DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) has identified a cohort of companies who will characterize their unique concepts for creating a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer within a decade. QBI, which kicked off in July 2024, aims to determine whether it’s possible to build such a computer much faster…
(January 16, 2025) The U.S. Department of Energy announced $71 million in funding for 25 projects in high energy physics that will use the emerging technologies of quantum information science to answer fundamental questions about the universe. Awards funded under this program will advance theories of gravity and spacetime, develop…
(January 15, 2025) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is announcing that $625 million is available to support National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. These centers, which are multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary teams, will accelerate the transformational advances in basic science and quantum-based novel-technology platforms needed to develop world-leading capabilities…
(December 23, 2024) On January 31, 2025, DARPA will host an in-person Proposers Day at the DARPA Conference Center in Arlington, VA. The Proposers Day is an opportunity to learn more about the anticipated Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program vision, foster collaboration among stakeholders, address questions, and promote teaming arrangements…
(December 18, 2024) Today, the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Supplement to the President’s FY 2025 Budget was released. It is the fifth annual report on the NQI Program, as required by the NQI Act, which became Public Law 115-368 in December 2018 to accelerate American leadership in quantum information science (QIS)…
(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…
(December 9, 2024) The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science and the five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers invite the public to participate in an upcoming virtual career fair. Attendees will hear from national and global experts in government, academia, and industry about the QIS job…
(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…
(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…
