The White House gathered nearly 100 participants from the quantum industry, academia, and government on July 7, 2026, for the Summit on American Quantum Innovation, the National Quantum Coordination Office said. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, opened the meeting two weeks after President Trump signed executive orders on quantum technology and post-quantum cryptography.
Most of the agency programs Kratsios cited in his published remarks had been announced in the seven weeks before the summit, from Commerce’s letters of intent on May 21 to the National Security Agency’s QuantumEAGLe on June 30. The two funding figures he gave were more than $2 billion in Commerce Department letters of intent and up to $200 million for a Department of War sensing initiative.
The meeting was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Nextgov/FCW reported on July 6. Matt Cimaglia, founder and managing partner of the venture firm Quantum Coast Capital, wrote in a first-person account for The Quantum Insider that the session took place in the building’s Indian Treaty Room under the Chatham House Rule. Under that rule, participants may use the information they hear but may not reveal the identity or affiliation of any speaker or other participant.
Panel and topics
Ethan Klein, the U.S. chief technology officer, moderated a panel on federal agency commitments with four officials, the coordination office wrote. They were Deputy Commerce Secretary Paul Dabbar, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, Energy Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil, and acting National Science Foundation Director Brian Stone.
The office wrote that the conversations “highlighted the need for additional application research, tools to certify quantum systems,” along with improved infrastructure, an expanded workforce, and close international cooperation. Senior leaders from the quantum industry took part in other panels, the office said, without naming any of them.
Commitments Kratsios cited
Kratsios said his colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) were “working to deploy the world’s first fault-tolerant, scientifically relevant quantum computing capability by 2028.” A fault-tolerant computer detects and corrects its own errors during a calculation. Gil set the 2028 goal in March. DOE formalized it on June 23, the day after the orders were signed, when it launched an initiative called Quantum Genesis.
In Executive Order 14413, signed June 22, Trump established the Quantum Computer for Application Development and Discovery Science (QC-ADDS) Effort. Its stated intent is to deliver at least one quantum computer for scientific discovery to a DOE facility. The order sets no delivery date for that computer, and the term fault-tolerant does not appear anywhere in its text.
Commerce announced nine letters of intent worth $2.013 billion in CHIPS and Science Act incentives on May 21. Under the largest, IBM would receive $1 billion in planned funding for Anderon, a quantum wafer foundry company headquartered in Albany, New York. In a letter of intent, the parties outline a deal’s terms before they sign a binding agreement.
The Department of War said on June 23 that it expects to invest up to $200 million within the next year through a Defense Innovation Unit initiative on quantum sensing. Through it, the unit plans to move mature quantum sensing and timing technologies to the armed forces.
NIST announced its Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center, with SRI International and an initial $20 million, on June 29. On May 14, the National Science Foundation committed $1.5 billion over the next decade to X-Labs and named quantum interconnects and integrated photonics as one of its first two topics. The NSA and the DEVCOM Army Research Office launched QuantumEAGLe, a program to speed the growth of the U.S. quantum computing industry, on June 30.
Post-quantum deadlines
Kratsios said the President had called for federal agencies to move critical systems to post-quantum cryptography by 2031. Moving to post-quantum cryptography means replacing today’s public-key algorithms with ones designed to resist attack by future quantum computers. He said NIST “will be making that transition by the end of next year,” meaning the end of 2027.
In Executive Order 14412, Trump directed the Office of Management and Budget to require agencies to move high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum key establishment by December 31, 2030. Key establishment is the step in which two systems agree on a shared secret key. The deadline for post-quantum digital signatures on those systems is December 31, 2031, a year later.
Trump also directed the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to propose rules requiring covered federal contractors to comply with NIST’s Federal Information Processing Standards, including its post-quantum algorithms, by December 31, 2030. Under the order, the council must propose the rules within 180 days, by December 19, 2026.
Matt Kinsella, chief executive of Infleqtion, attended the summit, the Information Security Media Group (ISMG) reported. He told ISMG that the government was asking industry to “get systems crypto-agile and treat 2030 as a shared deadline rather than a federal one.” A crypto-agile system can switch cryptographic algorithms without a redesign.
Update, November 12, 2026: Commerce finalized a CHIPS award of up to $100 million for PsiQuantum on September 8. Anderon said on September 16 that it had finalized its $1 billion award with Commerce. DOE launched the Quantum Genesis Q Competition on September 17. NIST published the final version of its post-quantum transition report, NIST IR 8547, on October 27.
