Carahsoft simplifies QuSecure’s quantum security for US government buyers

By the end of 2030, key establishment must be upgraded, and digital signatures must follow by the end of 2031, according to QuSecure, a leader in post-quantum cryptography. To accelerate government adoption of these critical updates, QuSecure’s QuProtect R3 platform is now available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule contract, removing a significant procurement barrier for U.S. agencies. Garfield Jones, QuSecure Senior Vice President of Research and Technology Strategy, emphasized the need for adaptable security as threats evolve.The urgency to upgrade cryptographic systems against future quantum threats is now compounded by strict deadlines; key establishment protocols require updates by the end of 2030, with digital signatures following by the end of 2031. QuSecure, a leader in post-quantum cryptography, is addressing this challenge by making its QuProtect R3 platform available through Carahsoft’s General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule contract, a move designed to streamline procurement for U.S. government agencies.This expanded access aims to alleviate a significant hurdle in adopting crucial post-quantum security measures. Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule contract serves as a pre-negotiated agreement, simplifying the purchasing process for government entities and reducing administrative overhead. The QuProtect R3 platform is a fully integrated solution intended to help organizations identify, correct, and manage cryptographic risks as they transition to post-quantum security standards.It unifies continuous discovery, active remediation, and real-time reporting into a single system, offering comprehensive visibility into an organization’s cryptographic environment, a level of insight that traditional, periodic audits cannot provide. The platform’s recon module delivers a live inventory of cryptographic assets across diverse systems, including cloud, on-premise, and legacy infrastructure. This capability allows security teams to quickly pinpoint vulnerabilities and prioritize risks before they can be exploited.Built-in reporting tools generate automated compliance outputs, such as Cryptographic Bill of Materials, aligned with evolving Federal standards. Recent Federal guidance has formalized the timeline for this transition, setting December 31, 2030, as the deadline for upgrading key-establishment protocols and December 31, 2031, for digital-signature upgrades on high-value Federal systems.This narrowing window is driving demand for solutions like QuProtect R3, which promise to fast-track these upgrades without requiring changes to underlying code or infrastructure. Natalie Gregory, Vice President overseeing the QuSecure Team at Carahsoft, said that access to proven, scalable solutions that address evolving cryptographic risk is critical as customers prepare for the transition to post-quantum security. Together with reseller partners, Carahsoft is committed to helping accelerate quantum readiness and enhance security resilience with the QuProtect R3 platform.Jones emphasized that the shift to post-quantum security is not a one-time fix, but rather an operational shift toward stronger, more resilient infrastructure that can adapt as threats, standards and mission requirements continue to evolve. This perspective differentiates the platform from a simple software upgrade, positioning it as a continuous process of cryptographic agility.QuSecure’s solutions are now available through multiple Carahsoft contract vehicles, including GSA Schedule No. 47QSWA18D008F, SEWP V contracts NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC27B, ITES-SW2 Contract W52P1J-20-D-0042, NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement #AR2472 and OMNIA Partners Contract #R240303. The company’s QuProtect R3 platform is designed to enable security teams to swap algorithms and enforce cryptographic policy changes across entire networks from a single control plane, while remaining backwards compatible with existing infrastructure and supporting compliance with multiple standards.Adding QuProtect R3 to Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule contract is an important step in helping Government agencies move from planning to execution on post-quantum security. Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/11/3342762/0/en/qusecure-s-post-quantum-cryptography-solutions-now-available-on-carahsoft-s-gsa-schedule-contract.html See today’s quantum computing news on Quantum Zeitgeist for the latest breakthroughs in qubits, hardware, algorithms, and industry deals.Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing.

For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.