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$IONQ 🔐 The document Katie Arrington signed before crossing over to IonQ.
Nov 18, 2025. Three years to the day after OMB Memorandum 23-02 first mandated federal PQC migration.
Pentagon memo: "Preparing for Migration to Post Quantum Cryptography." Signed by Arrington as Performing the Duties of the Chief Information Officer of the Department of War. Cleared for open publication Nov 20, 2025.
What it does:
→ Mandates PQC migration across EVERY DoW system. National security systems, non-NSS, weapons systems, cloud, mobile devices, physical access control, internet of things, unmanned systems, operational technology. "Regardless of classification, location, connection, type, purpose, or use."
→ Requires inventory of ALL cryptography currently in use across the Department, with mandatory reporting.
→ Sets hard phase-out deadlines: PSK-based solutions and symmetric key establishment protocols out by December 31, 2030. NSA CSfC-registered solutions by December 31, 2031.
→ Bans procurement of commercial PSK-based and symmetric key solutions for quantum resistance, effective immediately.
→ Replaces them with NIST-approved asymmetric PQC algorithms. CNSA 2.0-listed for National Security Systems.
→ Creates a new gatekeeper office: the DoW CIO PQC Directorate. Every Component must obtain intake approval AND deployment approval from this office before testing, piloting, using, or acquiring any PQC-related technology.
→ Names Dr. Britta Hale as DoW lead for PQC.
The legal stack it sits on: OMB Memorandum 23-02 (Nov 2022). CNSS Policy #15 (Dec 2024). Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 6510.02 (Aug 2022).
Eight weeks after signing this memo, on January 14, 2026, IonQ announced Arrington as Chief Information Officer. She started January 19.
She wasn't alone. Bill Dunlap was Acting Principal Deputy CIO at the Department of War during the same Oct 2025 to Mar 2026 window. The number two of the office that issued this memo. On April 1, 2026, he joined IonQ as SVP Global Architecture, reporting to Arrington.
The official who signed the federal PQC migration mandate, and her deputy from the same office, are now both inside IonQ.
Thanks to @InvestifyDaily flagging the memo. @InvestifyDaily
🔗dowcio.war.gov/Portals/0/Docu…
$IONQ @IonQ_Inc #IonQ #PQC #QuantumComputing

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