Innovate UK has selected the winners of the Quantum Missions pilot competition, distributing more than £12 million ($15.6 million) across ten projects to support the commercialization and adoption of quantum computing and quantum networking projects. The funding aims to accelerate quantum computing and networking technologies by increasing their capabilities and removing technological barriers to their commercialization and adoption. Project QUDITS2 will see partners Vector Photonics, Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, Phlux Technology, and the University of Bristol develop a hardware demonstrator platform to showcase the viability of quantum communication systems using qudits, units that can store and process information beyond 0s and 1s. Following the Innovate UK funded QUDITS feasibility study, the consortium will develop a demonstrator using commercially available novel photonics technologies from the U.K. supply chain that have the ability to operate at optical communications wavelengths. In the packaging advancements for quantum networks (PAGNet) project, partners include Alter Technology Tuv Nord UK, Kets Quantum Security, Senko Advanced Components, Wave Photonics, the University of Bristol, and the University of Sheffield. The team aims to enhance the field of quantum photonic integrated circuits (QPICs) by developing a comprehensive, plug-and-play packaging solution. The collaborators will create a new service that guarantees low-loss, high-density, and repeatable packaging of QPICs and will demonstrate the utility of this by showing packaged demonstration devices for quantum key distribution and entanglement distribution systems. For the silicon quantum error correction (SiQEC) project, Quantum Motion Technologies and the University College London will work together to deliver the first demonstration of a spin-based quantum computing system capable of implementing repeated rounds of quantum error correction, a critical milestone toward fault-tolerant quantum computing. The Hyperlon project joins NU Quantum, Cisco Systems, and the University of Sussex to deliver a full system-level demonstrator of a first-of-its-kind qubit-photon interface prototype with a clear path towards integration with commercial quantum processing units and robust mass production. QNET EPS taps Lumino Technologies Alter Technology TUV Nord UK, Redwave Labs, Vodafone Group, and Heriot-Watt University to develop the technology and U.K. supply chain for sovereign, high-performance entangled photon sources. The hybrid testbed for quantum computing: bridging deterministic light sources and silicon photonics project brings together AEGIQ, IQE, PsiQuantum, and the University of Sheffield to create a testbed for networked quantum information processing operating in channels widely used by telecoms. The project seeks to enhance the performance of single photon sources to meet the demands of quantum computing while advancing techniques for scalable growth. EQUIN, standing for entanglement enhanced quantum integrated networks, will see Toshiba Europe, British Telecommunications, HSBC Global Services, and the University of York work together to expand the capabilities of quantum key distribution networks by integrating emerging cryptographic algorithms that are resistant to quantum computers and integrating systems communicating with entangled photons. In the single-photon enhanced quantum optical network detector (SEQOND) project, partners Redwave Labs and Covesion and Fraunhofer UK Research will develop and demonstrate a new approach for quantum receivers by using up-conversion to achieve higher performance while maintaining low cost and providing a route to exploit quantum memories. The technology will be demonstrated on a commercial quantum network. For the quantum testbed advancements through 2D trapping architectures (Q-TATA) project, Oxford Ionics, Bay Photonics, and Riverlane will collaborate to address issues in trapped-ion quantum computing architectures through the use of a 2D chip designs to enable highly efficient routing in ion-trap systems. The QEC readout testbed project brings together SEEQC UK, Cambridge Consultants, Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools, Rigetti UK, the National Quantum Computing Centre, and the University of Edinburgh to integrate SEEQC’s scalable readout system with a Rigetti UK quantum computer to deliver a full-stack quantum error correction readout system to address the key technical bottleneck of qubit readout.