ColdQuanta Receives $2.8 Million Funding from US Government Agencies

Andrew Kortyna is an accomplished physicist who draws upon more than two decades of professional experience. Specializing in molecular, optical, and atomic physics, he taught physics at Bates College and Lafayette College. Since 2019, Andrew Kortyna has served as a physicist for Colorado-based ColdQuanta, Inc.

ColdQuanta, a market leader focusing on the commercialization of quantum atomics, received a $2.8 million award in funding from the United States government to boost its quantum core technology program in 2019. The additional funding from the United States military, NASA, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), aimed to improve technology, including quantum sensors, quantum positioning, and quantum communication systems.

The funding is a follow-up of a $1 million award from NASA, totaling the cumulative funding ColdQuanta has received at over $ 30 million. New award donors include DARPA, whose $721k funding to ColdQuanta, is a partnership with the University of Virginia’s Atomic-Photonic Integration program. In line with DARPA’s target to offer the world’s best sensors, ColdQuanta shall utilize the funds to design hardware subsystems, to promote the development of cold-atom-based gyroscopic sensors.

NASA’s Ames $684K award to ColdQuanta from the Directorate of Space Technology Mission — Transformational Communications Technology unit aims to promote the enabled and secure communication platforms. Lastly, the United States military granted two awards totaling $1.4 million to advance radiofrequency sensors and atomic clock technology. According to Bo Ewald, CEO of ColdQuanta, the success of the company in deploying advanced systems, such as the Cold Atom Laboratory system domiciled on the International Space Station, won the trust of multiple United States government bodies and national labs.