08:52 AM EDT, 04/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Rigetti Computing ( RGTI ) said Monday it will further develop its chip fabrication technology, Alternating-Bias Assisted Annealing or ABAA, under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research award it has received.

The $5.5 million Rigetti-led consortium aims to have a deeper understanding of how ABAA lowers defects in superconducting qubits, a challenge in making large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers, Rigetti said.

The company said the consortium will include Iowa State University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of Connecticut, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.