UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Prof. Andrew Cleland has been selected as a recipient of a flagship basic research funding program by the U.S. Department of Defense. The Department of Defense will provide $3 million over five years to support Professor Cleland's innovative quantum computing research project based on phonons, aiming to develop a quantum computer built on mechanical vibrations based on phonons.

Quantum design automation software developer QC Design announced yesterday that it has been selected for the Accelerator program by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and has received €4 million in funding from the program. The company said that the Accelerator program provides it with €2.5 million in the form of a grant and an additional €1.5 million in seed-round equity investments.

The HyperSpace project, an intercontinental network for quantum key communication, recently published its research achievements for the first half of the year. According to reports, the HyperSpace project aims to advance the vision of a global quantum communication network and was launched in October 2022.

Recently, a new research project named "MANTIS," led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Germany, has been officially launched with a kick-off event. This project, costing 5.11 million euros, aims to utilize modern quantum technology to safeguard critical infrastructure against hacker attacks. The MANTIS project is specifically researching the advantages of so-called MDI-QKD(Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution) over conventional QKD methods.