Accelerating adoption of quantum enabled sensing and PNT
Accelerating adoption of quantum enabled sensing and PNT supports business-led collaborations researching quantum sensing, navigation and timing technologies to overcome technical and commercial adoption barriers.
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Funder: UK Research and Innovation
Due Dates: September 18, 2026, 11am UK time (Application, closed) | October 16, 2026 (Notification) | December 1, 2026 (Latest start) | November 30, 2028 (Latest finish)
Funding Amounts: £1 million–£3 million grant request per project for 12–24 months; up to £14.3 million total
Summary: Supports business-led collaborations addressing technical and commercial barriers to adopting quantum-enabled sensing and position, navigation, and timing technologies.
Key Information: Collaborations must include a UK-registered SME claiming funding; academic institutions cannot lead.
Description
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), funds industrial research to accelerate adoption of quantum-enabled sensing and position, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies. Projects must identify a specific adoption barrier for a defined use case, propose an innovative, competitive solution, and demonstrate its feasibility and commercial viability.
Field trials, proof-of-concept demonstrations, and customer or end-user engagement should be primary objectives alongside necessary technical development. The competition encourages new or substantially extended use cases, co-development with end users, integration into existing technologies or workflows, and deployment in representative operational settings. Projects must exploit second-generation quantum technologies involving generation and coherent control of quantum states. Single-photon generation and detection are also in scope.
