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Texas is building the other half.
The research is already here. What turns it into American industry is the commercialization layer: capital, campuses, supply chain. It is going up now.
What is already here
Nine research institutions across five regions, with named centres in quantum materials, optics, superconductivity, metrology and post-quantum cryptography. Federal grants. A state fund. Two statewide summits in two years, and a semiconductor and defense base most states would trade a great deal for.
What gets built next
Universities are built to produce science, and Texas’s do. Producing companies is a different job, with different instruments: capital that moves at a company’s speed, buildings with the slab, power and shielding that quantum hardware needs, procurement, supply relationships, operators.
That is the layer going up now, and it is why the work stays here instead of following a postdoc to another state.
The state moved early
HB 4751 created the Texas Quantum Initiative inside the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism. It passed the House 115–32, took effect on 1 September 2025, and owes its first report to the Legislative Budget Board on 1 December 2026. Its scope covers computing, networking and sensing, so it can fund work that earns revenue inside a budget cycle.
The first big award went to a metrology lab rather than a computer: $4.8 million to UT Austin’s QLab. A supply chain needs measurement first.
The chain
Four stages, and Texas is moving on all of them.
| Stage | Who owns it | Status | What it takes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | Universities | Established | Nine campuses, named centres, federal grants. |
| Proof and prototype | Shared facilities | Building | Instrumentation and clean space on a company's schedule. |
| Company formation | Investors and operators | Underway | Capital that moves at the speed of a company. |
| Manufacturing | Industry and supply chain | In reach | The jobs, the patents and the security argument. |
The commercialization layer
Working outside the university.
- 01
Occam Foundry
Campus and facilities · Travis County
A 16.5-acre quantum campus announced in August 2026. Hardware needs slab, power and shielding before it needs offices.
- 02
Quantum Coast Capital
Investment
Investors in quantum technology companies, the step where most American quantum science stops.
- 03
The Quantum Insider
Market intelligence
The sector's trade publication. Much of the public record cited here was reported there first.
Sourcing
Every figure here comes from a statute, a public award announcement, or an institution’s own pages, and the pages that carry figures list their sources. Where a campus has not announced a named programme, its entry says what is on the record and stops.
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