U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, announced the grant Wednesday for the New York-based Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH).
Schumer said the money will support four projects in New York led by NY CREATES, Cornell, RIT and other Upstate research labs focused on semiconductors, quantum computing and other technology critical maintaining the nation’s edge in the defense industry.
The funding comes from the $2 billion CHIPS for America Defense Fund established by the CHIPS & Science Law that Schumer crafted.
“Upstate NY is leading the future of innovation for America’s national security in the chip industry,” he said in a statement.
These are the four projects that will receive funding:
1. $8.5 million for the Superconducting Quantum Error Correction Qubit project
Lead Research Institution: NY CREATES
Partner Research Institutions: Cornell University, Princeton, Syracuse University, New York University, QCI, Seeqc, Cadence, and the Air Force Research Lab
Description: NY CREATES and partners in academia, industry, and government will co-develop technologies necessary to demonstrate scalable quantum error correction, using new materials, innovative quantum circuits and qubit control schemes.
2. $8.2 million for the Quantum Ultra-broadband Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems (QUPICS) project
Lead Research Institution: AIM Photonics and Cornell University
Partner Research Institutions: Cornell, RIT, Columbia, Yale, AFRL, NIST, Quantinuum, Xanadu, and Toptica USA
Description: The QUPICS team, led by the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) and Cornell University, will develop the first 300mm foundry fabrication platform for quantum technologies.
3. $8.2 million for the Nitride RF Next-Generation Technology (NITRIDER) project
Lead Research Institution: Cornell University
Partner Research Institutions: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S. Naval Research, Laboratory, Northrup Grumman, Soctera Inc., Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC, Crystal IS Inc., and Qorvo Texas LLC
Description: Cornell University and its team will develop a way to increase the radio frequency output power of defense radar and communication systems that use high-speed gallium nitride high-electron mobility transistors.
4. $2.5 million for the Heterogeneous Quantum Networking project
Lead Research Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
Partner Research Institutions: Air Force Research Lab – Information Directorate, Yale University, Duke University, AIM Photonics, and NY CREATES
Description: The Rochester Institute of Technology and partners plan to develop a heterogeneous quantum network that connects ion-based qubits with superconducting and photonic-based qubits. Qubits are quantum bits which relay more information than the binary 1s and 0s of today’s computer chips.
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