Which quantum-computing companies the U.S. government is actually backing. This tracks cumulative federal contract, grant, and R&D-assistance awards to all 12 pure-play quantum stocks, sourced from USAspending.gov — a signal of which programs have won real national-security and research dollars. Awards count only when the recipient of record is the company itself, and every individual award below links to its official USAspending.gov record so you can verify the data yourself. CHIPS Act direct assistance is excluded until formally obligated.
$129.90M
Total Federal Funding · 7 companies
INFQ 78%
Most Funded
Defense (DoD) 59%
Top Agency
116
Awards Tracked
Federal Funding by Company
#
Company
Total Awards
Share
1
Infleqtion INFQ
$101.82M
78.4%
2
IonQ IONQ
$13.41M
10.3%
3
Rigetti Computing RGTI
$12.10M
9.3%
4
Quantinuum QNT
$2.05M
1.6%
5
Quantum-Si QSI
$381.06K
0.3%
6
Quantum Computing Inc QUBT
$95.66K
0.1%
7
D-Wave Quantum QBTS
$40.00K
0.0%
Source: USAspending.gov — federal contracts, grants & other assistance agreements (e.g. DARPA program awards), prime awards only: the recipient of record must be the company itself, so subcontracts and awards routed through primes are not counted. Loans (e.g. PPP) and CHIPS Act direct assistance are excluded. Companies with no prime awards on record (Xanadu, Horizon Quantum, IQM, Arqit) are tracked but not shown.
Cumulative Federal Funding by Company
Running total of obligated federal dollars over time, stacked per company
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New Awards by Year
Dollars obligated per calendar year, by award start date · 2026 is year-to-date
Funding by Agency
Which parts of the federal government are writing the checks
Defense (DoD) · 82 awards$76.47M (59%)
NASA · 11 awards$36.76M (28%)
Energy (DOE) · 7 awards$11.99M (9%)
GSA · 1 award$2.93M (2%)
Commerce · 12 awards$833.63K (1%)
NSF · 2 awards$812.60K (1%)
Interior · 1 award$99.93K (0%)
All Individual Awards (116)
Every award in the dataset, largest first. The ↗ link opens the official award record on USAspending.gov so you can verify it yourself.
Company
Award
Agency
Start
Amount
Record
INFQ
QGG app technology maturation and design based on an atom chip
How much government funding have quantum computing companies received?
Pure-play quantum computing stocks have received $129.90M in cumulative U.S. federal contract, grant, and R&D-assistance awards across 7 companies, per USAspending.gov (prime awards only).
Which quantum computing company has the most government funding?
Infleqtion (INFQ) leads with $101.82M in federal awards — 78% of all federal dollars awarded to pure-play quantum stocks.
Which government agency funds quantum computing companies the most?
The Department of Defense is the largest funder, with $76.47M obligated across 82 awards — 59% of all federal dollars awarded to pure-play quantum computing stocks.
When did quantum computing companies receive the most government funding?
2024 was the biggest year so far, with $46.87M in new federal awards to pure-play quantum computing companies. Awards are counted by their start date as reported on USAspending.gov.
How much government funding has Infleqtion received?
Infleqtion (INFQ) has received $101.82M in U.S. federal contracts and grants, per USAspending.gov.
How much government funding has IonQ received?
IonQ (IONQ) has received $13.41M in U.S. federal contracts and grants, per USAspending.gov.
How much government funding has Rigetti Computing received?
Rigetti Computing (RGTI) has received $12.10M in U.S. federal contracts and grants, per USAspending.gov.