Sec. 231. QUANTUM BENCHMARKING INITIATIVE
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## SEC. 231 QUANTUM BENCHMARKING INITIATIVE ###
(a)Initiative Required ####
(1)In general The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency shall establish and carry out an initiative to rapidly expand and support efforts to evaluate concepts, development plans, and prototypes, components, and subsystems needed to develop a utility-scale quantum computing capability available to the Department of Defense. ####
(2)Designation The initiative established pursuant to paragraph
(1)shall be known as the “Quantum Benchmarking Initiative” (referred to in this section as the “Initiative”). ###
(b)Elements The Initiative shall include the following: ####
(1)Activities to broaden existing efforts of the Department of Defense to verify and validate commercial efforts to design and build utility-scale quantum computers, including through collaboration with key partners in the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Office of Strategic Capital, the Defense Innovation Unit, and such other partners and organizations of the Department of Defense as the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency deems appropriate. ####
(2)Working with the Office of Strategic Capital to establish regular interactions with the venture capital and finance community to help accelerate commercial efforts to develop concepts, plans, prototypes, components, and subsystems needed to develop viable utility-scale quantum computers. ####
(3)Working with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy to connect key performers in fault-tolerant utility-scale quantum computing with support for industrial bases analysis, manufacturing support, and other analysis support to help foster and grow the broader industrial base supporting fault-tolerant utility-scale quantum computing. ####
(4)Working with the military departments and other components of the Department of Defense to refine use cases for militarily relevant applications of utility-scale quantum computers. ###
(c)Repeal of Reporting Requirement Subsection
(c)of section 229 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117–81; 135 Stat. 1611; 10 U.S.C. 4001 note) is hereby repealed.
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