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Trapped atomic ions manipulated by electromagnetic fields hold great promise for quantum information processing, but the standard technology and methods available and in use today are not suitable for practical applications. More robust operations with higher fidelity in a larger Hilbert space are required. Integrated photonics are an avenue for increasing the robustness, fidelity, and speed of quantum operations on trapped ions; optics integrated into ion-trap chips can provide novel modes of state preparation and photon collection. Relatedly, encodings in multiple electronic states within an ion’s metastable and/or hyperfine levels provide a route to a larger usable Hilbert space that may be more efficient than adding one ion per needed qubit. Collaborative efforts including Lincoln Laboratory and MIT researchers are underway to develop technologies and methodologies based on these approaches.