NEXT NEW AND EMERGING QUBIT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (nextNEQST)
W911NF21S0010
Grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332920
PDF   https://www.arl.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/NEQST-BAA-Final-V3.pdf
ARO-ARL Broad Agency Announcements   https://www.arl.army.mil/business/broad-agency-announcements/

White paper - strongly encouraged - due May 18, 2021
Proposals due July 20, 2021  
The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) in collaboration with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) is soliciting proposals for research in the next New and Emerging Qubit Science and Technology (nextNEQST) program. nextNEQST focuses on qubit systems that explore new operating regimes and environments, fundamentally new methods of fabrication, and new methods of design, control, or operation. These explorations should have in mind the development of quantum computation where the novel properties of these systems create significant advantages in coherence, fabrication, and/or qubit operation over current state-of-the-art qubits.      This BAA anticipates that state-of-the-art qubit devices and quantum logic gate approaches, even with anticipated advances, may not be the same devices on which future technology will be based.Inother words, tomorrow's fault-tolerant quantum computers will not be made with today's qubits.The nextNEQST program seeks to fund high-risk seedling efforts that can significantly advance the performance of future multi-qubit information processors towards the goal of fault-tolerant quantum computing. Each effort should pursue the experimental realization of the proposal. In addition, theory or model development must be included to elucidate the underlying mechanisms, and the theoretical and practical limits.