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President Donald J. Trump Ushers in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to supercharge U.S. innovation in quantum technologies and strengthen our national security in this critical area.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER USHERING IN THE NEXT FRONTIER OF QUANTUM INNOVATION
President Trump Signs Executive Order Ushering In The Next Frontier Of Quantum Innovation

“America stands at the cusp of a quantum revolution. Quantum information science and technology (QIST) will provide transformational capabilities that will drive American innovation, power economic growth, generate high-paying jobs, and bolster national security.” — President Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 14413

THE WHITE HOUSE SUMMIT ON AMERICAN QUANTUM INNOVATION

The White House Summit on American Quantum Innovation gathered nearly 100 senior leaders across industry, academia, and government to discuss commercialization, strengthening domestic capabilities and implementing President Trump’s quantum innovation executive order.

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The White House Summit on American Quantum Innovation

The White House Summit on American Quantum Innovation

See How the Agencies are Supporting the President's Executive Order

Explore how participating agencies are supporting the President’s Executive Order through new initiatives, programs, and coordinated actions.

Agency Announcements

Department of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is advancing a coordinated effort to develop and deploy scientifically relevant, fault-tolerant quantum computing capabilities. Through Quantum Genesis, DOE is identifying high-impact scientific applications, establishing a national framework for quantum computing development, supporting focused R&D on quantum computing applications, and launching the DOE Q Competition and the National Quantum Supercomputing User Facility to accelerate progress toward operational systems.

Together, these activities draw on DOE’s National Laboratories, research centers, user facilities, and industry partnerships to advance quantum computing and the broader quantum information science and technology effort to address challenges in science, energy, and national security.

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Department of Commerce

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced an agreement with SRI International, a nonprofit research and development institution, to help advance U.S. quantum research, development and manufacturing capabilities. Under the agreement, SRI is establishing the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC) to accelerate manufacturing of scalable, high-performance quantum components and systems to drive significant growth in the U.S. quantum industry. The center will build on the successful partnership NIST and SRI began in 2019 to establish the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), in response to the National Quantum Initiative Act.

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Department of War

In support of President Trump’s recent Executive Order, Ushering In the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation, the Department of War’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) announced the launch of a multi-phase initiative designed to transition mature quantum sensing and timing technologies directly to the Joint Force. This initiative is expected to invest up to $200M within the next year in support of this goal.

A new era of battlefield awareness is underway, and America stands at the cusp of a quantum revolution. This pivot represents a fundamental shift away from the limitations of classical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensors. By harnessing the unique properties of quantum physics, this project is set to shatter the longstanding “sensitivity-SWaP” (Size, Weight and Power) trade-off, unlocking unprecedented situational awareness for aerial, surface and subsurface missions in electromagnetically contested environments.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced Project Triad, a first-of-its-kind initiative to integrate quantum sensing, quantum networking and quantum computing into a single operational system. By bringing these three capabilities together for the first time, Project Triad will move quantum technology out of the lab and into real-world use — with applications spanning safety, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and more.

The initiative will lay the scientific and technological foundation needed to refine, scale and commercialize these systems through U.S. industry, strengthening American economic competitiveness, national security and quality of life.

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NSA and ARO

The Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the National Security Agency (NSA), in close collaboration with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Office (ARO), announces the launch of the Quantum Ecosystem Advancement, Growth & Leadership (QuantumEAGLe) initiative in support of the President’s Quantum Executive Order. This new program aims to accelerate the U.S. quantum computing ecosystem and strengthen the nation’s leadership in quantum technology.

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“Quantum technology is a foundational technology. It will transform our national security, economic competitiveness, and critical infrastructure. Quantum technology has the potential to revolutionize everything.” — Michael Kratsios, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

NATIONAL QUANTUM INITIATIVE

The National Quantum Initiative Act provides for the continued leadership of the United States in QIS and its technology applications. It calls for a coordinated Federal program to accelerate quantum research and development for the economic and national security of the United States.

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National Quantum Initiative

President Trump Signed the National Quantum Initiative Act in 2018

News from the QIS community

Eight NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes announced
August 26, 2026
Eight NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes announced

Understanding and wielding the quantum properties of nature is the ambitious objective of eight research institutes that will collectively receive more than $290 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The investment is an expansion of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program, which NSF created in 2020 as part of the agency’s strategy to fulfill the 2018 “National Quantum Initiative Act.”

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