Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002253
The Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science (SC), announced a funding opportunity to create a small set of large, multi-institutional National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. These Centers are meant to bring together teams across institutions and disciplines to push major advances in quantum information science (QIS) and the underlying basic science and technology needed for the United States to build and sustain world-leading quantum capabilities. The program is explicitly framed as supporting the goals of the National Quantum Initiative Act, with an emphasis on accelerating progress through coordinated, center-scale efforts rather than isolated single-lab projects.
The opportunity is listed as DE-FOA-0002253 and uses cooperative agreements (and potentially other instruments), which typically means DOE expects substantial involvement in shaping or overseeing the work compared with a standard grant. The activity category is science and technology and other research and development (CFDA 81.049). DOE is looking for proposals from multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional teams, but the submission must come in as one consolidated application led by a single lead institution. While eligibility is described as unrestricted in general terms, applicants still have to comply with any specific conditions described in the full announcement and supplementary instructions.
In terms of funding scale, the FOA targets Center budgets in the range of $10 million to $25 million per year. The award ceiling is listed as $125,000,000, and DOE anticipated making about five awards. Taken together, that signals a program designed for large, flagship efforts with enough resources to support integrated research portfolios, shared infrastructure, collaboration across universities and national laboratories, and coordinated planning toward major QIS goals.
The solicitation also uses a mandatory pre-application step as a gatekeeping mechanism. Pre-applications were required by February 10, 2020, and DOE planned to send back an encourage or discourage response by March 10, 2020. Only teams that received encouragement would be invited to submit a full application for merit review. The full application deadline was April 10, 2020. The FOA makes clear that proposals may be declined without merit review if they did not submit a pre-application, if they were not encouraged to proceed, or if they fail to follow the required guidelines and criteria.
Overall, this FOA is best understood as DOE Office of Science building a national network of major QIS Centers, each run by a lead institution but structured to unite multiple partners around ambitious, transformational research agendas. The intent is to speed breakthroughs in quantum science and quantum-enabled technologies by funding teams at a scale large enough to tackle long-term, high-impact challenges, coordinate research directions, and create sustained national capability rather than incremental progress in narrow areas.Apply for DE FOA 0002253
- The Department of Energy - Office of Science, Office of Science in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Quantum Information Science Research Centers" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.049.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 10, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 10, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $125,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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