Small Business Innovation Research · Small Business Technology Transfer
Icarus Quantum Inc: SBIR & STTR awards
7 awards worth $2.43M to 1 companies since 2023 match these filters. Phase I tests an idea (usually a few hundred thousand dollars); Phase II builds it (often $1M or more).
Icarus Quantum Inc's federal contracts and grants · All SBIR & STTR awards
Awards by year
| Year | Phase I | Phase II | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | $705.0K |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | $1.35M |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | $375.0K |
The latest year fills in over months: agencies report awards to SBIR.gov with a lag.
By agency
- Department of Defense 3 awards · $1.47M
- Department of Commerce 2 awards · $500.0K
- National Science Foundation 1 awards · $305.0K
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1 awards · $150.0K
Latest matching awards
| Award | Company | Agency | Phase | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noise-free Excitation of Semiconductor Quantum Dots · topic 4 | Icarus Quantum Inc · Colorado | Department of Commerce · National Institute of Standards and Technology | SBIR Phase II | $400.0K | 2025-10-01 |
| SBIR Phase I: A Tunable Source of On-Demand Single and Entangled Photons · topic QT | Icarus Quantum Inc · Colorado | National Science Foundation | SBIR Phase I | $305.0K | 2025-10-01 |
| A Quantum Dot Source of On-Demand Entangled Photons for Space-Based Quantum Networking · topic SF22D-T004 | Icarus Quantum Inc · Colorado | Department of Defense · Air Force | STTR Phase II | $1.25M | 2024-09-17 |
| Noise-free Excitation of Semiconductor Quantum Dots · topic 4 | Icarus Quantum Inc · Colorado | Department of Commerce · National Institute of Standards and Technology | SBIR Phase I | $100.0K | 2024-05-15 |
| Integration of a semiconductor quantum emitter and a lithium niobate frequency converter for telecom quantum light generation · topic T8 | Icarus Quantum Inc · Colorado | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | STTR Phase I | $150.0K | 2023-08-01 |
| A Quantum Dot Source of On-Demand Entangled Photons for Space-based Quantum Networking · topic SF22D-T004 | Icarus Quantum Inc · Colorado | Department of Defense · Air Force | STTR Phase I | $150.0K | 2023-06-05 |
| An on-demand source of entangled photon pairs for scalable quantum networking · topic X224-OCSO1 | Icarus Quantum Inc · Colorado | Department of Defense · Air Force | SBIR Phase I | $75.0K | 2022-11-08 |
Source: SBIR.gov award data (SBA) ↗, awards through 2026-08-28. Amounts are as agencies report them to SBA. SBIR/STTR contracts also appear in USAspending as ordinary awards; grants (NIH, NSF, DOE) appear as assistance. Open topics are posted by each agency; see Opportunities for contract notices.