FA875025CB040↗

Name: FA875025CB040: Functional Exploitation of Noise in Utility-Scale Quantum Optimization -The Interplay Between Noise and Variational Quantum Optimization, Develop and Identify Algorithmic Techniques, Classes of Problems, and Candidate Quantum Computing Architectures
Creator: SpendQuery

FUNCTIONAL EXPLOITATION OF NOISE IN UTILITY-SCALE QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION -THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NOISE AND VARIATIONAL QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION, DEVELOP AND IDENTIFY ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES, CLASSES OF PROBLEMS, AND CANDIDATE QUANTUM COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES

Definitive Contract · Department of the Air Force · to Universities Space Research Association (UEI VPWMMPGGPJ74) · data as of 2026-09-30

Obligated to date$497.6K3 actions

Current value$716.9Kwith options exercised

Period2025-04-24 → 2027-12-22current end date

Up for re-bid: ends 2027-12-22. Recompete brief → · Signals Intelligence Focused Technologies for Exploitation and Reporting (SIFTER) ↗

What it is

Product or service: National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Applied Research (PSC AC12)
Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) (NAICS 541715)
Contracting office: Fa8750 Afrl Rik (FA8750)
Competition: Full and open competition · 2 offers received
Pricing: Cost plus fixed fee
How it was bought: Standalone contract
Solicitation: FA875023S7001
Where the work is: District of Columbia, DC · district DC-98
Topics: quantum

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2025$361.3K

FY2026$136.3K

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subcontractors: where the money went next

No subawards reported for this award. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; many awards have none.

Every action

3 actions since 2025-04-24. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Modification	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2026-06-15	P00002	Supplemental agreement (work within scope)	$136.3K	FUNCTIONAL EXPLOITATION OF NOISE IN UTILITY-SCALE QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION -THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NOISE AND VARIATIONAL QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION, DEVELOP AND IDENTIFY ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES, CLASSES OF PROBLEMS, AND CANDIDATE QUANTUM COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES
2025-08-04	P00001	Funding only	$150.0K	FUNCTIONAL EXPLOITATION OF NOISE IN UTILITY-SCALE QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION -THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NOISE AND VARIATIONAL QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION, DEVELOP AND IDENTIFY ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES, CLASSES OF PROBLEMS, AND CANDIDATE QUANTUM COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES
2025-04-24	0		$211.3K	FUNCTIONAL EXPLOITATION OF NOISE IN UTILITY-SCALE QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION -THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NOISE AND VARIATIONAL QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION, DEVELOP AND IDENTIFY ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES, CLASSES OF PROBLEMS, AND CANDIDATE QUANTUM COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-09-30). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗