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The bill boosts U.S. quantum commercialization, supply-chain resilience, and workforce capacity through coordination, facilities, and transparency, while imposing modest taxpayer costs and risks of diluted funding focus, collaboration limits, and administrative burdens.
Scientists, tech workers, and small quantum firms will have faster paths to commercialization and new jobs because improved coordination and targeted federal programs accelerate development and scale-up of quantum technologies.
State governments, small manufacturers, and U.S. firms will face reduced reliance on foreign suppliers for key quantum components because the bill strengthens domestic and allied-focused supply chains.
Researchers, startups, and manufacturers will gain access to prototyping and manufacturing facilities at research and commercial scales, making it easier to move lab prototypes toward scalable production.
Taxpayers and federal budgets will face increased costs because establishing and operating the liaison, Manufacturing USA institute, prototyping facilities, and new reporting efforts require additional federal spending and staff time.
Scientists and taxpayers could see R&D focus diluted because a nonbinding 'sense of Congress' encouraging broad coverage across many technologies may pressure agencies to spread limited funds rather than concentrate on the most promising approaches.
Researchers and emerging technology developers may be disadvantaged because explicitly highlighting and prioritizing named platforms and enabling technologies can bias agency priorities and make it harder for unnamed or novel approaches to compete for support.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Adds DOE–NSF coordination, orders manufacturing-gap assessments, supports planning/assistance for a Manufacturing USA quantum institute, and requires independent and consortium studies on NQI progress and collaboration.
Introduced April 8, 2025 by Marsha Blackburn · Last progress April 8, 2025
Requires the creation of a DOE–NSF liaison to coordinate quantum research activities, directs NIST (with Commerce) and DOE to assess manufacturing gaps and support planning or financial assistance to establish a Manufacturing USA institute for quantum component and systems manufacturing, and orders independent studies and a near-term report on progress, collaboration barriers, and funding for quantum research and applications. The institute must cover end-to-end manufacturing (design through testing), prototyping at research and commercial scales, workforce development, and support a resilient domestic and allied supply chain for technologies important to national security and competitiveness.