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. Eliminating Supply Chain Barriers for Enabling Technologies While the domestic market hosts a rapidly expanding ecosystem of commercial hardware designers and end users, the transition [...]

SRI will establish the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center through an expanded NIST collaboration to help scale production.

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…