U.S. Department of Energy Awards $61 Million for Quantum Research

The awards were made pursuant to three funding opportunity announcements released earlier this year. These include Quantum Information Science and Research Infrastructure, Entanglement Management and Control in Transparent Optical Quantum Networks and Quantum Internet to Accelerate Scientific Discovery. Awards totaling $30 million were made to five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRC) to enable new discoveries and development of nanotechnologies and advance QIS, chemistry, materials, and clean energy. Awards of $6 million were made to create new devices which could form the building blocks of a quantum internet. And another $25 million in awards were made to support the research, design, development, and demonstration of regional-scale quantum network testbeds. Additional information about these awards can be viewed in a news release from the Department of Energy available here.

August 25, 2021