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NIST and SRI International Partner to Launch $20 Million Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a formal public-private partnership agreement with nonprofit research and development institution SRI International to establish the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC). Backed by an initial $20 million investment from NIST, the specialized center is engineered to bridge a critical transition gap in the domestic technology pipeline, moving advanced quantum physics frameworks out of isolated laboratory setups and into standardized, commercial production lines.