Future Announcement: Quantum Computing – Applications Workshops (QC-AW)

Special Notice DARPA-SN-27-14, issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Multi X Office, serves as an advance notification of the agency's intent to host a series of Quantum Computing Applications Workshops (QC-AW) beginning no later than January 2027. The primary objective of these workshops is to determine the commercial impact of future utility-scale quantum computers by collaborating with quantum-algorithm experts, end-users, financial stakeholders, and hardware experts. This effort aims to identify high-value use cases, accelerate industrially relevant quantum advantage, and establish a path toward pricing the value of quantum computations through the development of new benchmarks for commercial application workloads. This notice is issued solely for information and program planning purposes and does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals or proposal abstracts. Interested parties should monitor sam.gov for future Requests for Information (RFI) describing the workshops. All administrative and technical inquiries should be directed to the QBI SN Coordinator at [email hidden], with Micah Stoutimore, Ph.D., serving as the technical point of contact. The notice explicitly states that no classified information should be included in any response. The response deadline for this notice is December 30, 2026, and the associated NAICS code is 541715.