CRS Releases Defense Primer on Quantum Technology
(May 24, 2021) The Congressional Research Service has released a Defense Primer on Quantum Technology. See the report here. URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11836
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …