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The National Science Foundation (NSF) grant opportunity titled "Enabling Quantum Leap: Quantum Idea Incubator for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems" (QII-TAQS) is part of NSF's broader "Big Ideas" initiative launched in 2016. That initiative highlights ten long-range priority areas where NSF wants to push the frontiers of science and engineering, especially through convergence research that blends perspectives and methods from multiple disciplines. While proposals for this program are submitted through the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (MPS/OMA), NSF makes clear that the projects are intended to be reviewed and managed across disciplines by a team of program directors rather than being handled within a single traditional research silo. The overall aim is to help the United States stay at the leading edge of global research by accelerating high-risk, high-reward work that could reshape what is possible in quantum technologies.
At its core, QII-TAQS is an "idea incubator" program designed to back interdisciplinary teams pursuing highly original and potentially transformative quantum concepts. NSF is explicitly looking for proposals that go beyond incremental progress and instead introduce new concepts, new experimental platforms, and/or fundamentally new approaches that could speed up advances in quantum science, quantum computing, and quantum engineering. The solicitation anticipates breakthrough outcomes across major quantum technology areas, including quantum sensing, quantum communications, quantum simulation, and quantum computing systems. In practical terms, the program is meant to help translate ambitious quantum ideas into credible, testable realities, moving from theory and early concepts toward demonstrable quantum functionality.
A key requirement is that proposed research must be interdisciplinary and must include elements from three broad thrust areas. The first thrust area is fundamental science, which can include physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, biology, geoscience, and foundational ideas and techniques in quantum information science and engineering. The second thrust area is communication, computation, and modeling, covering the algorithmic, computational, and theoretical frameworks needed to design and evaluate quantum systems and their performance. The third thrust area is devices and engineered systems, emphasizing the physical realization of quantum effects in hardware and integrated systems. Proposals are expected to clearly explain how the project leverages and advances knowledge across the chosen thrust areas, rather than simply listing disciplines side-by-side. The spirit is integration: NSF wants to see that the collaboration itself is essential to the breakthroughs being pursued.
The solicitation emphasizes innovation and quantum functionality, meaning the work should not stop at abstract ideas or purely conceptual discussions. Projects are expected to culminate in experimental demonstrations and/or proof-of-concept validations, or otherwise produce transformative advances toward real quantum systems. Competitive proposals are expected to be led by an interdisciplinary team of at least three investigators, structured so that the group collectively contributes synergistic expertise spanning (1) one or more engineering domains, (2) mathematics and/or computational/computer and information science, and (3) at least one physical, chemical, biological, or materials science domain. This team composition requirement underscores that NSF is prioritizing proposals where engineering, computation, and fundamental science are tightly linked in pursuit of a quantum system breakthrough.
From an administrative and funding standpoint, this is a discretionary NSF grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 19-532) in the science and technology research and development category. The award ceiling is $2,000,000 per award, with NSF expecting to make about 20 awards under the solicitation. The opportunity was created on November 20, 2018, with an original closing date of May 24, 2019. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional details referenced in the solicitation's eligibility section, which typically means applicants should verify institutional and organizational eligibility requirements in the full announcement. Overall, QII-TAQS is positioned as a targeted mechanism to seed bold, cross-cutting quantum research efforts that combine fundamental discovery with modeling and engineered demonstrations, with the central evaluation criterion being the likelihood that the integrated effort can produce genuinely transformative advances in quantum systems.Apply for 19 532
- The National Science Foundation in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Enabling Quantum Leap: Quantum Idea Incubator for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 47.041, 47.049, 47.050, 47.070, 47.074, 47.075, 47.076, 47.079, 47.083.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 20, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 24, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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