PQC Migration Will Become the Largest Federal IT Infrastructure Program of the 2027-2030 Period

The combination of the September 2026 FIPS 140-2 deadline, January 2027 NSS compliance requirement, and the scale of the migration task -- 4,000+ agency systems estimated by OMB, $7.1 billion projected migration cost, every HSM and network appliance in every federal data center potentially affected -- makes PQC migration the dominant federal IT infrastructure program of the next three years. Vendors who position now with FIPS 140-3 validated products, PQC migration assessment capabilities, and hybrid deployment expertise will have a structural procurement advantage through 2030. (more)