# Project MQB-01 — QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

**Program element:** 0602025E — Making, Maintaining, Supply CHAIN AND Logistics  
**Project:** MQB-01  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E

## Summary

Project MQB-01 — QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES requests $603.2M in FY2027, 37% of the $1.62B requested for program element 0602025E, up 68% on FY2026. 7 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 358.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 603.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 487.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 102.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 108.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 112.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602025E; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project MQB-01 buys

The Quantum Technologies project addresses the Applied Research associated with the development and evaluation of emerging technologies and system concepts that exploit or employ quantum technology and phenomenon for quantum computing and networking to include hardware, software, relevant protocols, and commercialization prospects. This PE also supports innovation and incubation of advanced quantum hardware, architectures, software, and design automation for computing, networking, and sensing. Prior to FY 2026, efforts in this Project were funded in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-02.

## Activities (R-2A) — 7

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) | — | 282.0 | 481.0 | +71% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a0) |
| Quantum Technologies Studies and Concepts | — | 12.0 | 69.2 | +475% | [a6](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a6) |
| Quantum Augmented Network (QuANET) | — | 11.5 | 18.0 | +56% | [a3](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a3) |
| Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) | — | 14.5 | 15.0 | +3% | [a5](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a5) |
| Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) | — | 12.7 | 10.9 | −14% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a2) |
| Macaroni | — | 18.8 | 5.9 | −68% | — |
| H6 | — | 6.6 | 3.1 | −52% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)

- Expand evaluations of plausible utility-scale concepts as needed to prevent strategic surprise. - Finalize R&D plans, including detailed execution plans addressing the major risks associated with building a utility-scale quantum computer, planned risk mitigation steps, and plans for prototypes that will demonstrate risk reduction…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a0

### Quantum Technologies Studies and Concepts

- Investigate new concepts in combined quantum sensing with quantum networking. - Explore hardware interconnectivity between heterogeneous qubit platforms. - Evaluate heterogeneous quantum architectures for relevant use cases. - Initiate design activities for manufacturable quantum sensors.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a6

### Quantum Augmented Network (QuANET)

- Reduce Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) of qNICs towards deployable hardware package. - Test, evaluate, and document developed quantum-augmented network protocols for standardization of protocols. - Develop and evaluate proof of concept over air quantum-augmented links by modifying qNICs.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a3

### Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ)

- Demonstrate initial components of heterogeneous quantum interconnects. - Demonstrate heterogeneous quantum circuit compilers on small reference circuits. - Develop preliminary heterogenous quantum computer architecture specifications.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a5

### Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS)

- Demonstrate robust quantum sensors on government platforms. - Validate theory and limits of operation of robust quantum sensors. - Develop integration requirements and methodology for system demonstrations.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MQB-01/a2

### Macaroni

**FY2027 planned work.** - Identify transition paths to wide DoW applicability for electrically-small receivers. - Identify transition paths to wide DoW applicability for electrically-small transmitters.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 decrease reflects the shift from concept validation to demonstration of the electrically-small receiver and transmitter.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Demonstrate electrically-small receiver performance in a relevant environment. - Demonstrate electrically-small transmitter performance in a relevant environment. - Develop plan for validation of system performance with government partners.

### H6

**FY2027 planned work.** - Demonstrate a fully-integrated tactical-grade clock. - Demonstrate use of tactical-clock with DoW communications equipment.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 decrease reflects the shift from initial design to initiating construction of tactical-grade clock components.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Demonstrate aging-insensitive operation in realistic environments. - Initiate construction of fully-integrated clock.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602025E project MQB-01 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602025E")`.

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