Assail Signs Qanapi to 5-Year $4.1M Contract for Autonomous Red Teaming and Post-Quantum Encryption​

Federal Mandate Alignment: The integration embeds quantum-resistant cryptography to address harvest-now-decrypt-later risks and support Executive Order 14412 and OMB M-26-15.Mutual Platform Deployment: Qanapi will run Assail’s Reaper for continuous autonomous red teaming inside its FedRAMP High boundary while Assail deploys Qanapi’s full Karst suite.Data and AI Sovereignty: All Reaper operations, findings, and AI models remain under Qanapi’s control in a DoD IL4-aligned environment managed via stackArmor.Assail, Inc., developer of the Ares and Reaper autonomous AI offensive security platforms, has signed Qanapi Group, Inc., a provider of post-quantum encryption and key management solutions, to a five-year contract with a total value of $4.125 million (€3.58 million). Announced on August 3, 2026, the agreement enables Qanapi to operate Reaper inside its own FedRAMP Class D (High) baseline cloud environment aligned to DoD Impact Level 4 requirements, while Assail integrates Qanapi’s Karst platform and FIPS 140-3 validated modules to harden its systems against quantum cryptographic threats.Under the contract, Reaper will conduct continuous, autonomous red teaming across Qanapi’s infrastructure. All findings and AI-generated threat intelligence remain inside Qanapi’s authorization boundary. The platform will automate Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) assessments, draft and submit Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) to its Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) for FedRAMP compliance, retest assets to validate true and false positives against Security Assessment Reports (SARs), and generate patches for Qanapi’s team to review and apply.Assail states it is the only autonomous offensive security platform allowing customers to deploy the entire Ares or Reaper platform, including the underlying AI models, on premises, in private or public clouds, isolated networks, or on Assail’s SaaS platform. Customers determine where the platform runs and where data resides, preserving complete AI and data sovereignty. For defense, intelligence, and regulated enterprise customers, Assail treats this capability as a requirement. The Qanapi environment is managed through stackArmor’s compliance platform, The Armory, which supports FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 4/5 workloads.Melissa Knight, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Assail, noted Qanapi is running Reaper inside a live FedRAMP Class D (High), IL4-aligned environment under its own control, matching the platform’s intended deployment model. Martin Rieger, Chief Solutions Officer at Qanapi, stated autonomous offensive testing inside the boundary provides continuous validation without sensitive data leaving the environment.As part of the agreement, Assail will deploy Qanapi’s full Karst platform, including Karst_Gorge, Karst_Echo, Karst_Fathom, and Karst_SafeShare, together with Enterprise Access to FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules. The deployment incorporates quantum-resistant algorithms intended to protect against the spectrum of cryptographic threats, including Q-Day, the point at which sufficiently powerful quantum computers can break widely used public-key encryption.Adversaries are already collecting encrypted data with the intent of decrypting it once cryptographically relevant quantum capability arrives, placing long-lived government and defense data at risk. By engineering post-quantum, crypto-agile protection into its stack, Assail aims to support the missions of combatant command and federal agency customers in meeting Executive Order 14412, “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks,” and OMB Memorandum M-26-15, both of which implement requirements stemming from the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act.Qanapi’s Karst architecture provides post-quantum encryption at the data layer, decentralized quantum-resistant key management, and AI/LLM data security features designed for deployment within customer-owned security boundaries serving commercial, regulated, and government environments.Assail and Qanapi’s five-year reciprocal contract strengthens sovereign autonomous testing and quantum-resistant encryption for defense and regulated environments.Find out more here.—Further articles, reports, and the latest quantum computing news may be found at The Qubit Report.Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its ME Innovation Fund has invested in JIJ Inc., a Japanese startup developing mathematical optimization middleware which leverages quantum computers. This Fraunhofer ISI has released “Quantum Repeaters – A Technology Roadmap,” prepared with Saarland University within the SQuaD project. The study compares hardware platforms including diamond SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum released Quantum Computing Frontiers in July 2026, mapping quantum chemistry and topological data analysis against Quantinuum’s hardware roadmap. The paper highlights Sign up to receive our newsletter and other reports.We keep your data private and share your data only with third parties that make this service possible. Read our privacy policy for more info.Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.