The United States has entered a new phase in the transition to post-quantum cryptography. The White House OMB Memorandum M-26-15, Execution of the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography, together with the Executive Order “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks“ and the Department of War’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Strategy, establishes PQC migration as an immediate national security, procurement, and systems engineering priority.
The Execution of the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography memorandum directs Federal agencies to transition high-value assets and high-impact systems to NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography. The memorandum establishes deadlines of December 31, 2030, for PQC key establishment and December 31, 2031, for PQC digital signatures. It also requires agencies to develop cryptographic inventories, migration plans, and cryptographic bills of materials (CBOMs), accelerate cryptographic module validation, and incorporate PQC requirements into Federal acquisition and procurement processes.
The Department of War’s strategy expands this transition across mission, enterprise, embedded, edge, communications, weapons, and command-and-control systems. It states that all Department systems must support PQC by the end of 2030 or be phased out and must use PQC by the end of 2031 unless otherwise directed. National Security Systems must also support CNSA 2.0 requirements.
The strategy extends well beyond replacing individual algorithms. It emphasizes the need for:
- Cryptographic discovery, inventory, and migration planning
- Cryptographic agility to enable future algorithm and protocol updates
- Secure software and firmware signing
- Modernized PKI, networking infrastructure, edge systems, and cryptographic hardware
- Integration of approved commercial PQC solutions into operational systems
- Security analysis, interoperability testing, and system-level validation
- PQC-enabled hardware, firmware, TPMs, HSMs, and embedded cryptographic modules
- Protection of terrestrial, space, radio-frequency, tactical, and command-and-control communications
PQSecure: Engineering PQC for Operational Systems
PQSecure Technologies develops deployable post-quantum cryptographic solutions that help organizations move from standards compliance to secure, high-performance implementations.
Our portfolio includes software, hardware, and hardware/software co-designed PQC solutions for embedded processors, FPGAs, ASICs, SoCs, secure boot platforms, roots of trust, communications infrastructure, and constrained edge devices.
PQSecure™ Agility
PQSecure™ Agility enables existing platforms to transition from classical cryptography to post-quantum cryptography without requiring complete system replacement. Its modular architecture supports configurable algorithms, parameter sets, interfaces, and implementation targets, providing a flexible path for future cryptographic updates.
The solution can be integrated into:
- Secure boot and root-of-trust architectures
- Software and firmware update pipelines
- TLS, IPsec, MACsec, and proprietary communication protocols
- PKI, device authentication, and key-establishment systems
- Embedded ARM and RISC-V processors
- FPGA-, ASIC-, and SoC-based security architectures
- Tactical, aerospace, automotive, industrial, cloud, and edge platforms
High-Assurance PQC Implementations
Algorithm compliance alone is not sufficient for operational security. PQSecure designs its technology to address implementation-level threats, including timing leakage, power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks, fault injection, insecure memory behavior, and software or firmware integration vulnerabilities.
Available capabilities include:
- Constant-time software implementations
- Side-channel-resistant key generation, decapsulation, and signing
- Masking, shuffling, secure-memory access, and leakage countermeasures
- Fault-injection detection and hardened control flow
- Formally verified components for secure boot applications
- Integrated TRNG and DRBG capabilities
- Configurable Tiny, Compact, Balanced, and High-Performance architectures
- Portable C and Rust libraries with hardware acceleration options
PQSecure supports NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms for key establishment and digital signatures, together with hash-based signatures, symmetric cryptography, secure hashing, and random number generation required for complete cryptographic subsystems.
From Mandate to Mission-Ready Deployment
The new Federal directives make clear that post-quantum migration is no longer a future research initiative—it is an operational requirement. Organizations must identify vulnerable cryptography, establish migration roadmaps, update acquisition requirements, validate commercial solutions, and begin integration into production systems.
PQSecure helps government agencies, defense programs, system integrators, semiconductor companies, and critical infrastructure operators move from cryptographic inventory and architecture planning to prototyping, acceleration, integration, testing, validation, and deployment.
Our U.S.-developed technologies provide a practical foundation for building interoperable, cryptographically agile, implementation-secure, and quantum-resistant systems capable of meeting emerging Federal and defense requirements.
With migration timelines now formally established by the Execution of the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography memorandum, the engineering transition is no longer optional.
The migration deadlines are now defined. The engineering transition must begin today.