🇺🇸The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded more than $290 million across eight Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes.

The U.S. National Science Foundation said eight Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes will collectively receive more than $290 million. The institutes are intended to address scientific hurdles associated with developing quantum-based technologies.

A Yale-led multidisciplinary team received $37.5 million for a center focused on practical quantum error correction. Its work will address the design of practical and self-correcting quantum computers across the technology stack and provide approaches that industry could use to build more reliable systems.

Princeton University will lead another of the eight institutes with a $27.9 million award. The Princeton-led program will develop quantum-processor fabrication techniques and support education and workforce-training programs in quantum science and engineering.

The disclosed awards are research grants to institutions, not purchases of commercial quantum-computing capacity. The program’s scope includes quantum-computing hardware, manufacturing and error correction rather than conventional GPU or central processing unit infrastructure.