(Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is one of the national intelligence agency  in USA. 

If we go to their site and search for Quantum programs interesting results appear. 

https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/quantum-programs-at-iarpa

They are supporting improving the coherence times of Super conducting Qubits. 

They are also working on Quantum Enhanced optimization. 

They support creation of the Logical Qubit. 

If you observe the participating institutes the famous names like UC-B , TU Delft and Harvard university are present. 

Further interesting section is the Related Articles section where the Quantum computing development from Microsoft, IBM ,Alphabet etc are mentioned and tracked :D. 

We can see that they have realized  the potential of Quantum computing at the earliest from this 2015 article which got published in Nextgov

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2015/12/why-intelligence-community-wants-quantum/124599/