Most Buying Committees are paralyzed by the all or nothing fallacy of Quantum adoption, believing they must hire a full research division or do nothing at all. This is a strategic error. The Services Wedge breaks this paralysis. By engaging a fractional "Office of the CQO" for a targeted purpose, The February 22nd Audit, enterprises can immediately map their Cryptographic Visibility and Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) exposure. This post details how to utilize a low-friction, high-impact audit to convert vague quantum anxiety into a rigorous, board-ready risk assessment without adding permanent headcount.

The invitation is explicit: Within 120 days of the Genesis order (by March 24, 2026) the U.S. Secretary of Energy must identify an initial set of data assets, including those from approved private sector partners. For manufacturers, this creates a critical strategic dilemma. While the Mission promises to integrate proprietary... and open scientific datasets into a secure, unified platform, it fundamentally centralizes your Intellectual Property within a government-operated infrastructure.

On March 24, 2026, Day 120 of the Genesis Mission the U.S. Department of Energy is mandated to finalize the risk-based cybersecurity measures required to incorporate private sector data into the national platform. This effectively graduates supply chain security from a standard compliance checkbox to a hard gatekeeper for innovation capacity.

If your materials science division is still relying on manual iteration to discover new alloys or battery chemistries, you are on a path to be mathematically obsolete by July 2026.