Within the White House fiscal 2021 proposal is funding for various "industries of the future" like $25 million to build the "national quantum internet."

The administration also announced the first seven members of the council, known as PCAST.

Programming and networking projects, as well as research on deeper physics problems, got rounds of funding from DOE.

President Trump signed the research bill into law Friday.

Legislation proposing to develop a unified national strategy for researching quantum information science could soon become law after passing the Senate.

It's not enough to help develop quantum computers, experts told a Senate panel. National labs also need to train the incipient workforce that will support them.