Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI)
Overview
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Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes are large-scale interdisciplinary research projects motivated by major challenges at the frontiers of quantum information science and technology (QIST). Institutes are expected to catalyze breakthroughs on important problems underpinning QIST, for example in the focus areas of quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum simulation and/or quantum sensing. S
- Category
- R&D
- Industry
- Other
- Technology
- Quantum
- Target stage
- Needs verification
- Project duration
- Needs verification
- Estimated preparation
- Needs verification
Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- $10M ~ $45M
- Currency
- USD
- Total programme budget
- $300M
- Support type
- Cash
- Co-funding
- None (fully funded)
- Matching fund
- Needs verification
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
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Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of sub-awards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus.
- RequiredLimited to certain organisation types
Eligibility is restricted to specific organisation types, which may exclude an ordinary company.
- Company age
- Needs verification
- Employees
- Needs verification
- Revenue limits
- Needs verification
- Consortium
- Needs verification
Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Also eligible
- None
- Foreign companies
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Needs verification
- Location condition
- A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.
Required Documents
Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions
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Application Process
How you apply
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Evaluation
Review process and criteria
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Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
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Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
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- Audit & settlement
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- Bayh-Dole government licence
US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.
Source: Standard across grants.gov federal programmes — check the individual announcement.
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
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IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
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AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
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- Nothing flagged
Similar Programs
Comparable by type, country and technology
- Topology
🇺🇸 United States · Grant · U.S. National Science Foundation
Needs verificationD-25 - NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL)
🇺🇸 United States · Grant · U.S. National Science Foundation
Needs verificationD-179 - The DOE Quantum Genesis Q Competition
🇺🇸 United States · Grant · Office of Science
$250K ~ $200MD-10 - Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (MFAI)
🇺🇸 United States · Grant · U.S. National Science Foundation
$500K ~ $1.5MD-DAY - Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)
🇺🇸 United States · Grant · U.S. National Science Foundation
$100K ~ $3.5MD-5
Source & Provenance
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- Application URL
- https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364054
- Last fetched
- 2026.10.09
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.10.09
- Data status
- Needs review
- AI enrichment
- Needs verification
- PRIMARYGrants.gov 24-599
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- OFFICIAL_APIGrants.gov Search2 API
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