We are seeking proposals for revolutionary research in design, engineering, test, and evaluation of utility-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers under DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) 2026.
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We are seeking proposals for revolutionary research in design, engineering, test, and evaluation of utility-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers under DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) 2026.
Research Scope: Work must address design, engineering, test, and evaluation of utility-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers and computational workflows that include quantum compute steps.
Innovation Threshold: Research must enable revolutionary advances; proposals that primarily result in evolutionary improvements to the current state of practice are explicitly excluded.
Submission Rules: Proposals must be submitted only in response to a specific QBIT topic call — proposals submitted directly to this announcement will not be considered.
Topic Calls (QBITs): Each QBIT will specify the research topic, proposal format, and submission due date beyond what this announcement provides.
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Price due
November 14, 2026
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Department of Defense, Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy
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