Last December the US government enacted the National Quantum Initiative Act, which will lavishly fund a number of research hubs dedicated to quantum technologies, including quantum computers and networks. The Trump administration’s 2021 budget boosts spending on quantum information science by about 20 percent, to $237 million. David Awschalom, a quantum engineer at the University of Chicago told CNBC: “That level of funding will enable us to begin to develop the groundwork for sophisticated, practical, and high-impact quantum networks.