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“ColdQuanta’s success in delivering advanced systems in prior projects, such as our Cold Atom Laboratory system on board the International Space Station, has earned us the trust of major U.S. government agencies and national labs,” said Bo Ewald, CEO of ColdQuanta. “These new awards underscore the importance of quantum atomics as the basis of a wide range of new quantum systems in the future.”
Dr. Dana Anderson, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of ColdQuanta, commented on the news: “While each of these awards focus on a different application of cold atom technology, taken together they are important milestones toward the development of quantum systems for global positioning and communications. Our team is excited about the new projects and the continued development of our Quantum Core technology, with the goal of delivering and deploying quantum positioning systems (QPS), quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum computers in the future.”
Award Details:
DARPA awarded ColdQuanta $721k in partnership with the University of Virginia under its A-PhI (Atomic-Photonic Integration) program. The A-PhI program is focused on combining the high accuracy of atomic systems with the portability, manufacturability, and robustness of photonic integrated chips for high-performance position, navigation, and timing (PNT) devices as an alternative to today’s Global Positioning System (GPS). DARPA’s goal is to produce the world’s best sensors (atomic clocks and gyroscopes) with a size, weight, and power consumption that make them suitable for widespread deployment ranging from ships to aerial vehicles to dismounted soldiers. As a key milestone toward such systems, ColdQuanta will deliver hardware subsystems that enable building cold-atom-based gyroscopic sensors.
NASA Ames awarded ColdQuanta $684k under the Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Transformational Communications Technology effort. This effort advances quantum-enabled and secure communications as well as quantum computer networking through the development of a novel quantum memory device based on storing quantum information in a lattice of cold atoms.
A branch of the U.S. military awarded two contracts to ColdQuanta, totaling $1.4 million in funding. The projects involve atomic clock technology and radiofrequency sensors.
Dr. Dana Anderson, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of ColdQuanta, commented on the news: “While each of these awards focus on a different application of cold atom technology, taken together they are important milestones toward the development of quantum systems for global positioning and communications. Our team is excited about the new projects and the continued development of our Quantum Core technology, with the goal of delivering and deploying quantum positioning systems (QPS), quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum computers in the future.”
Award Details:
DARPA awarded ColdQuanta $721k in partnership with the University of Virginia under its A-PhI (Atomic-Photonic Integration) program. The A-PhI program is focused on combining the high accuracy of atomic systems with the portability, manufacturability, and robustness of photonic integrated chips for high-performance position, navigation, and timing (PNT) devices as an alternative to today’s Global Positioning System (GPS). DARPA’s goal is to produce the world’s best sensors (atomic clocks and gyroscopes) with a size, weight, and power consumption that make them suitable for widespread deployment ranging from ships to aerial vehicles to dismounted soldiers. As a key milestone toward such systems, ColdQuanta will deliver hardware subsystems that enable building cold-atom-based gyroscopic sensors.
NASA Ames awarded ColdQuanta $684k under the Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Transformational Communications Technology effort. This effort advances quantum-enabled and secure communications as well as quantum computer networking through the development of a novel quantum memory device based on storing quantum information in a lattice of cold atoms.
A branch of the U.S. military awarded two contracts to ColdQuanta, totaling $1.4 million in funding. The projects involve atomic clock technology and radiofrequency sensors.